George Henschel (1850 - 1934)

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Sir Isidor George Henschel (18 February 1850 – 10 September 1934), was a German-born British baritone, pianist, conductor, and composer.

Henschel was born at Breslau, in Silesia, now part of Poland, then part of Germany, of Polish-Jewish parentage,[citation needed] and educated as a pianist, making his first public appearance in Berlin in 1862. He subsequently took up singing, initially and briefly as a basso profundo but developing a fine baritone voice. In 1868, he sang the part of Hans S ... (Read all)