Charles William Eric Fogg (21 February 1903 – 19 December 1939) was an English composer, conductor and BBC broadcaster.
His early works were influenced by Igor Stravinsky,[1] though his later pieces owe more to Granville Bantock and Richard Strauss and even William Walton.
[4] Fogg went on to study with Granville Bantock in Birmingham[1] and served for two years as organist at St John's, Deansgate.
[3] Fogg's name first reached a wider audience when he appeared at a Queen's Hall Prom concert on 21 September 1920 to conduct his Golden Butterfly ballet suite, op 40.
[5] On 16 June 1921, his "Chinese suite" The Golden Valley (1919) was premiered by Adrian Boult with the Queen's Hall Orchestra at the Royal College of Music, in the same concert as the first and only performance of Ivor Gurney's War Elegy.
[9] Eric Fogg's first wife was the cellist Kathleen Moorhouse (c1900-1952), who studied (and later taught) at the Royal Manchester College of Music with Walter Hatton and Arnold Trowell.