An British-born American composer. Born in Boston in 1863, he emigrated at a very young age with his family to America. There he would write some of his most famous works including The Picture that is Turned toward the Wall, his first major success and Two Little Girls in Blue, a classic Victorian tear-jerking ballad. Despite the success of his music, he died in poverty in Belle Vue Hospital in New York in 1899, leaving a family completely destitute.
