HENSCHEL, SIR GEORGE (Isidor Georg) English musician (naturalized 189o), of German family, was born at Breslau, and educated as a pianist, making his first public ap pearance in Berlin in 1862. He subsequently, however, took up singing, having developed a fine baritone voice. In 1877 he began a successful career in England and in 1881 he married the Amer ican soprano, Lillian Bailey (d. 1901), who was associated with him in a number of vocal recitals. He was also prominent as a conductor, started the London Symphony Concerts in 1886 and both in England and America (where he was the first conductor of the Boston Symphony Concerts, 1881) he did admirable work in this way, giving programmes always of the highest type. In 1907 he married as his second wife, Amy Louis, also a musician, of New York, while he continued singing and teaching until long past his loth year. Among his compositions may be mentioned a fine Stabat Mater (Birmingham Festival 1894), an opera Nubia (Dresden, 1899) and many admirable songs.
See Sir George Henschel, Musings and Memories of a Musician 1918).