Selby, Bertram Luard

1853-

 

English organist; born at Kent. Was organist from 1881 to 1883 of a Salisbury Cathedral, and is at the present time connected with the Church of St. Barnabas in London. Selby has composed two operas, The Ring and Adela; the music to Helena in Troas; a one-act operetta, Weather or No, which was successfully given in Berlin in 1896, under the title, Das Wetterhauschen; a school cantata, The Waits of Bremen; church-music; part-songs; songs; idyll for orchestra; two piano quintets; sonata and suite for violin and piano; suite for piano and sonatas for organ.