Thomas Willert Beale
Alias: Walter Maynard
Life
Born: 1828
Died: 1894
Biography
Thomas Willert Beale was the son of music publisher Frederick Beale of the firm of “Cramer, Beale, & Addison.” He was educated at Lincoln’s Inn, London, and became a barrister. He had a great passion for music and was a good pianist. He became an Impresario, managing operas and touring with notable musicians of his time. He was a founder of the New Philharmonic Society. He contributed to many journals and magazines, often writing under the pseudonym Walter Maynard. He wrote a farce, a three-act drama, an operetta, and a large number of songs, part-songs, and piano pieces. His most significant work was the two-volume tome The Light of other Days as seen through the wrong end of an Opera Glass (1890) containing his reminiscences of famous singers, performers, and composers. The volumes provide contemporary insight into English music culture in the 19th Century. He died at Gipsy Hill, in the London Borough of Lambeth.
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