Henry Hugh Pearson

Henry Hugh Pearson (12 April 1815–28 January 1873) was an English composer resident from 1845 in Germany. He is also known as Edgar Mansfeld, and when living in Germany as Heinrich Hugo Pierson.^[1] He had success in his adopted country with his operas and songs but little in his own, and his music is now rarely performed. Hubert Parry took lessons with him in 1867.

External links

Free scores by Henry Hugo Pierson at the International Music Score Library Project
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Pierson,_Henry_Hugo_(DNB00) (Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Vol. 45)
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Hugo_Pierson (German Wikipedia article) (can someone translate for this site?)

References

^ Alice Pollin and Burton Pollin, 1965: In Pursuit of Pearson's Shelley Songs, Music & Letters, Vol. 46, No. 4 (Oct., 1965), pp. 322-331, Oxford University Press. (online)

Authority control: PND: 121302490 | LCCN: no93019057 | VIAF: 2662109 | WorldCat

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Name	Pierson, Henry Hugo
Alternative names	Mansfeld, Edgar; Pierson, Heinrich Hugo
Short description	English composer
Date of birth	12 April 1815
Place of birth
Date of death	28 January 1873
Place of death