Herbert Sharpe

Herbert Francis Sharpe, (1 March 1861 – 14 October 1925) was a British pianist, composer and music professor of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He studied piano at the Royal College of Music in London later becoming professor there. He composed songs, chamber music and orchestral pieces. He was one of the founding professors of the Royal College of Music.

Herbert Sharpe was born in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England in 1861 the son of a Yorkshire merchant. He gained a piano scholarship (The Halifax Scholarship) at the National Training School for Music (now the Royal College of Music) in 1876. He went on to succeed Eugen d'Albert as the Queen's Scholar there studying under Arthur Sullivan, Ebenezer Prout, J. F. Barnett and Frederick Bridge. After finishing his studies in 1882, he gave many concerts in the provinces as well as in London where he organised several series of trio concerts between 1899 and 1902. He married Bertha Turrell in April 1884 and his son the cellist Cedric Sharpe was born in 1891.

Sharpe was one of the founding members of the Royal College of Music being appointed professor of piano there in 1884 one year after it opened. In 1890 he became an examiner for the Associated Board. He was one of the first to bring the music of the modern French school into the curriculum. The composer Vaughan Williams was one of his most well-known pupils.

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