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Richard Henry Walthew
Richard Henry Walthew, also known as Richard H. Walthew (4 November 187214 November 1951) was an English composer and pianist.
Richard Henry Walthew was born in Islington in Middlesex, the only son of Richard Frederick Walthew and his wife, Emily the daughter of Charles Jeffreys Esq. He was a pupil of Hubert Parry for four years at the Royal College of Music (1890–1894). He taught the opera class at the Guildhall School of Music and from 1907 was Professor of Music at The Queen's
' "Songs for Voice, Viola and Piano, Op. 91", in which he and the viola virtuoso Max Gilbert, a colleague at the Royal Academy, accompanied the Liverpool-born contralto Nancy Evans. Together with Watson Forbes (viola) he recorded two works by Richard Henry Walthew (18721951) – the "Sonata in D for Viola and Piano" and "A Mosaic in Four Parts". He accompanied the Russian tenor Vladimir Rosing on a Parlophone record of songs by Tchaikovsky and Frank Bridge released in 1934