Added on Aug 17, 2010

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I can find very little information about Kilner. He published several piano pieces between 1879 and 1893, but this piece - from 1879 - was his big hit. Per my score it was 'performed with immense success at Mr. [Wilhelm] Kuhe's Brighton Musical Festival, and by all the Naval & Military bands in Her Majesty's Service'. It was certainly played by the school orchestra at Merchant Taylors' School, Harrogate, speech day in June 1881. It was available in arrangements for piano duet, organ , 'septett', small brass band etc. The score was published by Lyon & Hall, who published music in Brighton and ran a music shop for many years - I remember visiting it in the 1960s. I believe that Kilner himself lived in Brighton - a WA Kilner of Montpelier Road sadly lost a son who was attempting to shoot down a Zeppelin in 1918 at the end of the First World War. I have to say that I cannot find anything Moorish about this piece, but it is pleasant and well written, and certainly evocative of an era. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Played by Phillip Sear www.psear.co.uk

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