Aylmer Buesst [SEP] occupation
Aylmer Buesst
Aylmer Buesst (28 January 18833 January 1970) was an Australian conductor, teacher and scholar, who spent his career in the United Kingdom. He was mainly associated with opera and vocal music. He also wrote a work on the leitmotifs in Richard Wagner's operas, and he was an authority on heraldry.
Biography.
Aylmer Wilhelmy Buesst was born in 1883 in Melbourne, the son of William Augustus Buesst (1846–1935) and Helen Violette née Pett. His brothers were Victor Augustine (1885-1960
obscure works of Niccolò Paganini, and he did much work in editing, arranging and transcribing works from the early Italian school, by composers such as Corelli, Handel, Tartini, J. S. Bach, Nardini and Vitali. His own compositions included a "Zigeuner Rhapsody" for violin and orchestra (1909).
César Thomson died in Bissone, near Lugano, in 1931.
Honours.
- 1919 : Commander of the Order of Leopold.
His notable students included: Hugo Alfvén, Aylmer Buesst, Edwin Grasse