Walter Cecil Macfarren

[1] His many pupils included Ethel Mary Boyce, Dora Bright, Llewela Davies, Stewart Macpherson, Tobias Matthay, Henry Wood and Agnes Zimmermann.

He composed many small but solid piano pieces, natural, pleasing, and always highly finished in style, recalling Felix Mendelssohn and William Sterndale Bennett.

Resuming the composition of large works, he produced with success at Wilhelm Kuhe's Brighton Festivals his Pastoral Overture (1878), Hero and Leander (1897), and a Symphony in B flat (1880).

[1] A reviewer of the symphony wrote: "The merit of this composition is unquestionable, and nothing but a sustained manner of its own is wanting to place it, as a work of high pretension, beyond the pale of criticism.

Mozart, Mendelssohn and Sterndale Bennett, however, continually peeping out, the impression is in a great degree what may be termed kaleidoscopic.... Apart from these considerations, the symphony is interesting throughout...."[2] In 1881 he wrote a concert-piece for piano and orchestra, written for his pupil Miss Kuhe, and the only large composition of his to be printed; and he produced an overture to Henry V at the Norwich Festival.