Sir George Dyson (1883–1964) was a well-known English musician and composer. His son is the physicist Freeman Dyson and his grandchildren are the science historian George Dyson and Esther Dyson. He was born in Halifax, Yorkshire on 28 May 1883 and died in Winchester 28 September 1964.
He attended the Royal College of Music and was a winner of the Mendelssohn Travelling Scholarship which enabled him to spend some years in Italy and Germany. in 191...
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Sir George Dyson (1883–1964) was a well-known English musician and composer. His son is the physicist Freeman Dyson and his grandchildren are the science historian George Dyson and Esther Dyson. He was born in Halifax, Yorkshire on 28 May 1883 and died in Winchester 28 September 1964.
He attended the Royal College of Music and was a winner of the Mendelssohn Travelling Scholarship which enabled him to spend some years in Italy and Germany. in 1914 he joined the Royal Fusiliers, and during this time wrote a widely-used training pamphlet on the use of grenades. After being invalided home with shell-shock in 1916 and recovering, he joined the Royal Air Force and became involved in their military bands. In 1921 he took up posts as music master at Wellington College and as professor of composition at the Royal College of Music. He then worked for thirty years as a school music teacher (at Rugby, Wellington and Winchester), before being appointed as Director of the Royal College of Music in...
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