Sir George Thomas Thalben-Ball CBE was an organist and composer who, though originally from Australia, spent most of his life in Britain.
Born in Sydney, of Cornish parents who brought him back to the UK when he was four years old, he was known as George Thomas Ball or G.T. Ball until early adulthood. He studied organ and piano at the Royal College of Music in London, which he entered at the unusually young age of 14. The level of his talent can be gleaned from the fact that he played the solo p...
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