Williams, Gerrard John 10.dec.1888-7.mar.1947 England, London Kent Lewisham Catford - Surrey, Oxted
13.jan.1889 baptized at St Mary in Lewisham, 1891 living in a family of manufacturers and enough servants at 56 Ringstead Road in Catford which was probably the home where he was born, until 1920 active as architect, 1919-1928 as autodidact in music he published hundreds of compositions with Curwen, Novello, Chappell and Paxton, 1930-1937 he worked as editor/arranger for Boosey, Chappell and Novello, 1935 residing at Underhill, Stafford Road in Caterham Surrey, at time of death residing at Four Oaks Merle Common in Oxted ; son of soap and perfume manufacturer Frederick Gerrard Williams (Cheshire, Birkenhead 19.oct.1855-16.aug.1897 Lewisham) and Edith Beatrice (Somerset, Long Ashton 1861-) ; 3.feb.1917 at Stoke Bishop Gloucestershire he married Gladys Madeline Frances Gordon Ratcliffe (Bristol Clifton 1886-25.jan.1966 Bristol) ; at death he left a widow named Mabel

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Valsette brute. Piano no1 from Dejeuner dansant pub J. Curwen & Sons, London 1925
[] 3 Miniatures. Piano (also for orchestra) on poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley pub J. & W. Chester, London 1919	[] 1 - Dawn [] 2 - The Isle [] 3 - Time
[] String quartet no1
[] String quartet no2. October 1919 pub J. Curwen & Sons, London 1921
[] Pot-Pourri, a cycle of fragments. Piano (also for orchestra) dedication: To Harold Brooke on verses by Isobel Scott-Bremner pub Novello, London ; H. W. Gray, New York 1921
[] Aubade. Song words F. Wyville Home pub J. Curwen & Sons, London 1921
[] Reflection "A wide stretch of silent waters is my heart" words Leigh Henry pub J. Curwen & Sons, London 1921
[] Fanfare for a meeting of taxpayers (made of 2 snatches of old english songs, "Now, oh now, I needs must part" and "With never a stive of money" pub Goodwin & Tabb, London 1921
[] The story of the willow pattern plate. Comic operetta for children. 1921 words Charles W. Emlyn pub J. Curwen & Sons, London 1922
[] Kate, the cabin-boy. Opera. 1923
[] Propriety, prunes and prisms. Three expressions. Piano pub J. Curwen & Sons, London 1924
[] Dejeuner dansant. Two impertinences. Piano pub J. Curwen & Sons, London 1925 Richard Rodney Bennett piano, English Sinfonia / Richard Rodney Bennett. EMI 5655962	1 - Valsette brute [] 2 - Raguette extra sec.
[] Ring up the curtain, a harlequinade. Piano verses by Rodney Bennett pub W. Paxton & Co., London 1926	[] 1 - Clown [] 2 - Pierrot [] 3 - Columbine [] 4 - Harlequin [] 5 - Pantaloon [] 6 - Pierette (and Pierrot)
[] The magic carpet. Suite for piano verses by Rodney Bennett pub Oxford University Press, London 1927
[] On my own, an adventure in eight scenes for piano verses by Rodney Bennett pub Oxford University Press, London 1927
[] To a Lady-Bird. Unison Song pub Elkin & Co, London 1927
[] Four Songs pub Edwin Ashdown, London 1928	[] 1 - My ain thing. words adapted by R. Bennett [] 2 - The retort [] 3 - A lament. poem by P. B. Shelley [] 4 - Spinning song. words by G. Paget
[] Elegiac rhapsody, in memoriam E.B.W.
[] The wings of Horus. Ballet
[] Charming Chloe. Ballad opera
[] Cortege on a ground bass. Orchestra

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