Macfarren, Sir George Alexander
(1813–1887)
Sir GEORGE ALEXANDER MACFARRENMACFARREN, GEORGE ALEXANDERGEORGE ALEXANDER MACFARREN [* 1813-† 1887] Few theorists of reputation have been as totally submerged in the ideas of another as was George Alexander Macfarren. It was to Alfred DAY, who survived the publication of his Treatise on Harmony (1845) by only a few years, that Macfarren owed his conception of music's theory, as is reflected in his several pedagogical works published in the 1860s and 1870s and his edition of DAY's treatise in…