But his mother had taught him piano from the age of five and he made rapid progress, and soon developed a career as a music teacher.
[5] Between 1933 and 1935 White played with the London Philharmonic Orchestra as piano, harpsichord and celeste player, and as a répétiteur at Covent Garden under Sir Thomas Beecham.
He published A Dictionary of Musical Terms (1934), wrote composer monographs and edited the piano works of Scriabin.
His Romance in D for cello and piano was also performed in December 1907 at the Bechstein Hall alongside pieces by George Dyson, Joseph Holbrooke and Hubert Bath.
[2] And the orchestral tone poem Astarte Syriaca, a musical commentary on a sonnet by Rossetti, secured its first performance at a Queen's Hall Patron's Fund concert on 23 January 1911.