Talk:W. R. Cave

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Thanks for adding this article, when researching Trove for additional references, I noticed that W.R Cave & Co. was a major player in South Australian shipping & thought an article about it would be very appropriate.Cowdy001 (talk) 23:10, 9 August 2012 (UTC)

Probably also a composer.
W. R. Cave appears also to have been a composer, with at least some of his music published. Here is an example in the National Library of Australia:

http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/20108750?selectedversion=NBD28613685

This is not merely an on-line "library card" for the composition "Graceful Dance", but the actual score is displayed.

I also have some sheet music by him which I found maybe 30 or 40 years ago in a used book-shop.

Curious about this seemingly unknown composer, I searched for information on him, and found this article.

Yet I cannot be totally sure the two W. R. Caves are the same person, although I think they probably are. Both the score in the N.L.A. and my own score (a different composition) are attributed to just "W. R. Cave", and the Wikipedia article for the grain merchant uses just his initials as the primary version of his name, suggesting that this was how he was usually known. The library entry for him gives his birth year as 1841, which agrees with the birth-year for William Rendell Cave, the merchant, and it also gives his death-year as 191, which may be a mistyping of 1916, also in Wikipedia. The library page also gives his first names as "William Rendell", even though the score they display on-line gives only the initials "W. R.". As a musician, I would also say that the style of his music is consistent with the time the grain merchant lived, spanning the 19th and 20th centuries, and also consistent with the country he lived in, Australia, where music during this period tended to be more conservative than that of many European composers of the same time.

So is this other activity of him as a composer worth mentioning in the article? I'm not quite sure if this enough evidence that the two men, composer and grain merchant, are indeed the same person. M.J.E. (talk) 13:55, 24 May 2016 (UTC)