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Born at Beckenham, Kent, Arthur Hinton studied at the Royal Academy of Music in the 1880s where his composition teacher was F W Davenport, the former Principal MacFarren’s son in law. Hinton was a contemporary of Bantock at the Academy but does not appear to have had the same youthful revolutionary impulse, a conservatism underlined when later Hinton studied with Rheinberger at Munich where his first symphony was played. A second Symphony was heard at the Royal College in 1903. For intending pioneers, Hinton’s scores and parts are at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Possibly one of the reasons Hinton is not well remembered is that at key points in his career he was in the USA (he also visited Australia and New Zealand) and so he did not establish a presence in the UK with a succession of new works.
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