Ernest Farrar
Ernest Bristow Farrar (
July 7,
1885 -
1918) was an English composer, pianist and organist, born in
Lewisham. He studied with Sir
Charles Villiers Stanford at the
Royal College of Music and became a music teacher himself, but his career was cut short by
World War I as he died on the
Western front within days of reaching France in 1918. He did, however, have time to write a fairly good deal of music but, apart from a few songs, his works are now rarely performed and he is perhaps best known as the teacher of
Gerald Finzi.