Sir George Henschel by Falk

SIR GEORGE HENSCHEL
(Isidor George Henschel )
(18 February 1850 – 10 September 1934)
German-born British baritone, pianist, conductor, and composer.

Born at Breslau, in Silesia, now part of Poland, then part of Germany, of Polish-Jewish parentage .His first appearance (1877) in England was as a singer, and there he and his wife inaugurated (c.1880) the song recital.
In 1881 he became the Boston Symphony Orchestra's first conductor. He returned to England in 1884 and was professor of singing (1886—88) at the Royal College of Music, London. He founded (1886) the London Symphony Concerts, which he conducted until they ceased in 1897. In his musical compositions, which include operas, songs, choral works, and instrumental music, he was strongly influenced by Brahms and Wagner.
He married the American soprano, Lilian June Bailey (1860-1901), who was associated with him in a number of vocal recitals throughout the United States and nearly all Europe until 1884. He was knighted in 1914 and at a farewell concert that year, was presented with a lute engraved with "A token of gratitude for forty years' song". He taught at the Institute of Musical Art in New York, .