Geoffrey Toye
Musical Artist
1889 – 1942
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Who was Geoffrey Toye?
Edward Geoffrey Toye, known as Geoffrey Toye, was an English conductor, composer and opera producer.
He is best remembered as a musical director of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company and for his association with Sadler's Wells Theatre. One of his ballets, The Haunted Ballroom, became popular and was revived several times, and the new overture that he prepared for Gilbert and Sullivan's Ruddigore in 1919 became the standard version.
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- Born
- Feb 17, 1889
Winchester - Also known as
- Edward Geoffrey Toye
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Doris Lytton
(1915 - ) - Dorothy Fleitman
- Doris Lytton
- Children
- Nationality
- England
- Profession
- Education
- Royal College of Music
- Died
- Jun 11, 1942
London
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on July 23, 2013
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