Egerton Tidmarsh showed exceptional musical ability at an early age. He entered the Royal Academy of Music as a a Sterndale Bennett Scholar and studied under Tobias Matthay , and later won the Liszt Scholarship. Mr. Tidmarsh is now a professor at the Royal Academy of Music, has given many recitals in London and the provinces, and has fppeared in various parts of the British Empire. On several occasions he has played concertos with orchestra at the Proms.
'A Profound Lament'
Schumann's Phantasie was composed in 1836 and dedicated to Liszt. The music bears the following motto from Schlegel : ' Through all the tones in Earth's many-coloured dream there sounds one soft long-drawn note for the secret listener.' But its poetic basis is rather more explicitly described by Schumann himself in a letter to Clara Wieck , who later became his wife : ' I have finished a Phantasie in three movements, which I sketched down to the details in June, 1836. I do not think I ever wrote anything more impassioned than the first movement; it is a profound lament about you.'