Leslie Stuart was an English composer of Edwardian musical comedy, best known for the hit show Florodora and many popular songs.
He began in Manchester as a church organist, for 14 years, and taught music while beginning to compose church music and secular songs in the late 1870s. In the 1880s, he began to promote and conduct orchestral and vocal concerts of popular and theatre music as Mr. T. A. Barrett's Concerts. He began to focus his composition on music hall, including songs for blackface p...
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