George English

George Philip John Engisch (1882–1972), later English, was an Australian tenor soloist, composer and conductor. His two symphonies of the early 1930s (No. 1 of 1932 and No. 2 of 1933) represent the late-Romantic style just like the better-known late symphonies by Alfred Hill. English was born in Sydney but later resided in Melbourne. He moved to Brisbane in the 1940s and established the Brisbane Opera Guild. He sang in J.S. Bach's St Matthew Passion and Christmas oratorios. In the late 1910s he sung the tenor parts in Hector Berlioz's La damnation de Faust with the Sydney Philharmonic. By 1920 he was tenor soloist at St. Paul's Cathedral in Melbourne. In May 1920 he participated in the Beethoven Festival organized by the New South Wales Conservatorium being the soloist in Beethoven's Missa solemnis (on 15 May).