Nicholas Comyn Gatty

Nicholas Comyn Gatty (1874-1946) was born in the village of Bradfield near Sheffield, where his brothers Ivor and Rene (Reginald) also shared his interest in music. He read music at Downing, University of Cambridge (BA 1896 and DMus 1927) and at the Royal College of Music, London, where he studied under Stanford, and where he became a close friend of Ralph Vaughan Williams.

He was music critic/correspondent for several of the major London newspapers (including Pall Mall Gazette and The Times ) and was also Assistant Editor of Grove's Dictionary . Early in his career he occupied the post of assistant conductor at Covent Garden, and was also organist to the Duke of York's Royal Military School in Chelsea.

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