George Lloyd

George Walter Selwyn Lloyd (28 June 1913 – 3 July 1998) was a British composer. Biography Early life Born in St Ives, Cornwall, of part Welsh, part American ancestry, Lloyd grew up in a very musical family. George's father, William A. C. Lloyd, was a retired naval officer, an accomplished amateur flautist and an Italian opera aficionado, writing a biography of Bellini. George was born in Rome and only returned to England on the death of his father. George Lloyd's mother played the violin, viola and piano. Both parents were leading members of the St Ives Arts Club and their house was a regular weekly venue for chamber music, so the young composer grew up with music all around him. His maternal grandmother was the American painter Frances (Fanny) Powell who had been an opera singer, and was an early pioneer of the St Ives artists' colony.