See also:EDWARD See also:LLOYD (1845— )
, See also:English See also:tenor vocalist, was See also:born in See also:London on the 7th of See also:March 1845, his See also:father, See also:Richard See also:Lloyd, being See also:vicar choralist at See also:Westminster See also:Abbey
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From 1852 to 186o he sang in the abbey See also:choir, and was thoroughly trained in See also:music, eventually becoming See also:solo tenor at the See also:Chapel Royal
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He began singing at concerts in 1867, and in 1871 appeared at the See also:Gloucester Musical Festival
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His See also:fine evenly-produced See also:voice and pure See also:style at once brought him into See also:notice, and he gradually took the See also:place of See also:Sims See also:Reeves as the leading English tenor of the See also:day, his. singing of classical music, and especially of See also:Handel, being particularly admired
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At the Handel Festivals after 1888 he was the See also:principal tenor, and even in the vast auditorium at the Crystal See also:Palace he triumphed over acoustic difficulties
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In 1888, 1890 and 1892 he paid successful visits to the See also:United States; but by degrees he appeared less frequently in public, and in 1900 he formally retired from the See also:platform
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