Frederic Bayco
Frederic Bayco, sometimes spelt Fredric Bayco (1913 – 1970) was an English organist and composer of light music, best known for his Tudor pastiche Elizabethan Masque. Frederic Bayco was born in London (as Frederick James Baycock) he attended Brighton School of Music, took lessions from organist R H Timberley and composer Eric Thiman, and attained his ARCO. He was later made a fellow of the Royal College of Organists (FRCO). Before the war Bayco was a cinema organist (at the Gaumont, Union Street in Plymouth and on the Gaumont theatre circuit) and began to perform frequent theatre organ recitals, often broadcast by the BBC, at the Dominion Theatre in Tottenham Court Road, London and elsewhere.
Also recorded as Fredric Bayco
Frederic Bayco
- Born
- 1913 · London.
- Died
- 1970
- Nationality
- United Kingdom · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Occupation
- composer · organist
- Languages
- English
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Frederic Bayco, sometimes spelt Fredric Bayco (1913 – 1970) was an English organist and composer of light music, best known for his Tudor pastiche Elizabethan Masque. Frederic Bayco was born in London (as Frederick James Baycock) he attended Brighton School of Music, took lessions from organist R H Timberley and composer Eric Thiman, and attained his ARCO. He was later made a fellow of the Royal College of Organists (FRCO). Before the war Bayco was a cinema organist (at the Gaumont, Union Street in Plymouth and on the Gaumont theatre circuit) and began to perform frequent theatre organ recitals, often broadcast by the BBC, at the Dominion Theatre in Tottenham Court Road, London and elsewhere.
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Born at London in 1913, died in 1970.
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- 2.Peter Gammond, The Oxford Companion to Popular Music (Oxford University Press, 1991) p.345
- 3.Hyperion Records, list of recordings, accessed 16 November 2010
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- 5.Organ biography, accessed 16 November 2010
- 6.Western Evening Herald, 28 October 1999, p. 10
- 7.Radio Times, Issue 686, 22 November 1936, p. 81
- 8.Biography, Hyperion Records
- 9.Recorded on A Rifles Bandstand: The Band and Bugles of the Rifles, SRC Records (2009)
- 10.For instance, Quality Street and Two Period Pieces, Group Forty Orchestra, KPM 060 (196)
- 11.Fredric Bayco at the Internet Movie Database, accessed 16 November 2010
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- 13.KPM Music , accessed 16 November 2010
- 14.Philip L Scowcroft, Music and Road Transport music, a Fourth Selection, accessed 16 November 2010
- 15.Who's Who in Music, Shaw Publishing, 1950 edition, p. 15
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