Glover, Stephen Ralph

1812-1870

English music teacher and prolific composer; was born in London, and died there, though he is said to have lived in the country much of his life. He began composing in 1840, and produced by the score ballads, duets and other songs, and piano music, amounting in all to twelve or fifteen hundred compositions, which were immensely popular and remunerative in his day, but mostly short-lived; for example, Beauty and the Beast, a small opera, and the duet, What Are the Wild Waves Saying? His settings of Longfellow's Excelsior are mentioned as "not without merit." His success, however, was considered superficial.

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