Kitson, Charles Herbert
(1874–1944)
CHARLES HERBERT KITSONKITSON, CHARLES HERBERTCHARLES HERBERT KITSON [* 1874-† 1944] The British penchant for formal examinations led to a pedagogy geared more towards a successful showing on exam days than towards a thorough grounding in the infinitely more varied possibilities of the actual repertoire. Bach's fugues were somewhat inconvenient: it was much more »beneficial« for the student to master the procedures of the examination fugue, since it would contain all of the principal features of…