PARRY, Charles Hubert Hastings (Sir)
b Bournemouth, 27 February 1848
d Rustington, Sussex, 7 October 1918, aged seventy
He obtained his MusB degree while still at Eton, and then went to Exeter College, Oxford. He joined the staff of the Royal College of Music in 1883, becoming director in 1894. He succeeded Stainer as professor of Music at Oxford in 1900. He remained at the Royal College until his death, but resigned the Oxford chair in
1908. He was awarded several honorary doctorates, was knighted in 1898 and made a baronet five years later.
1878-9 (30-1)
Piano Concerto
1878-82 (30-4)
Symphony No 1
1883 (35)
Symphony No 2, Cambridge
The Birds, incidental music
1885 6 (37-8)
Guinevere, opera
1886 (38)
Suite moderne, for orchestra
1889 (41)
Symphony No 3, English
Symphony No 4
1892 (44)
The Frogs, incidental music
1893 (45)
Hypatia, incidental music
1894 (46)
Lady Radnor's Suite, for orchestra
1897 (49)
Symphonic Variations
1899 (51)
A Repentance, incidental music
1900 (52)
Agamemnon, incidental music
1905 (57)
The Clouds, incidental music
1912 (64)
Proserpina, incidental music
Symphonic Fantasia
1914 (66)
Symphonic Poem
The Acharnians, incidental music
1915 (67)
An English Suite, for orchestra
Parry also wrote sacred and secular choral works, songs, chamber and keyboard music, as well as much literary work.