Frédéric Alfred d'Erlanger

Shortly afterwards, in 1886, he moved to London with his elder brother, Baron Emile Beaumont d'Erlanger, to work as a banker,[2] for the private banking firm that his father owned.

[10] D’Erlanger's own home by then was at 4, Moorgate, but he actually died while staying at Claridges Hotel London, a favourite of his, on 23 April 1943, leaving £601,461 in his will.

D'Erlanger was really an amateur "gentleman composer" whose day job as a banker helped fund his interest in music.

The operas included Jehan de Saintré[1] (Aix-les-Bains, 1 August 1893; Hamburg, 1894), Inès Menso[2] (produced, under the pseudonym of Ferd.

Regnal, in London at Covent Garden on 10 July 1897, and subsequently in Germany as Die Erbe); Tess[2] (after Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles[12]), produced at the Teatro di San Carlo, Naples, on 7 April 1906 and at Covent Garden on 14 July 1909, on both occasions under the baton of Ettore Panizza; and Noël, produced at the Paris Opéra-Comique on 28 December 1910.

(1919) and the Concerto Symphonique for piano and orchestra (1921),[17] as well as the choral Messe de Requiem of 1930, admired and performed by Adrian Boult.

The Piano Quintet was first performed at St James's Hall, Piccadilly, on 1 March 1902 by the Kruse Quartet, with d'Erlanger himself as pianist.