George Frederick Boyle

[1] His father, George E. Boyle, was a teacher of singing and conductor of the Sydney Choral Society, and his mother, Elizabeth J.

In 1904, the visiting Polish pianist Ignacy Jan Paderewski met Boyle and suggested that he study with Ferruccio Busoni in Berlin.

2 by replacing the existing ending, which he considered unsatisfactory, with a more fitting brilliant cadenza and coda, and dedicated this edition to George Frederick Boyle.

[8] On Busoni's recommendation, he taught at the Peabody Institute (1910–22), succeeding his Australian countryman Ernest Hutcheson as head of the piano department when aged only 24.

[7] In 2016 Piers Lane with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra conducted by Johannes Fritzsch recorded the Piano Concerto in D minor for Hyperion.