Henry Balfour Gardiner (1877-1950) was an English musician, composer and teacher. Gardiner taught music briefly at Winchester College, collected English folk music and composed a very limited amount of music himself. 1877 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1950 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Winchester College is a public school in the city of Winchester in Hampshire, in the south of England. ...

His best known work, Evening Hymn is a lush, romantic, work of dense harmonies and is considered a classic of the English choral repertoire. It is still regularly performed as an Anthem at Evensong in Anglican Churches. An anthem is a choral composition to an English religious text sung in church services. ... Evensong is a liturgy from the Anglican Book of Common Prayer used in the evening, especially when the service is rendered chorally. ... The term Anglican describes those people and churches following the religious traditions of the Church of England, especially following the Reformation. ...

In his later years, Gardiner gave up on public musical life to concentrate on an afforestation programme on his Dorset farm. Afforestation is the process of converting open land into a forest by planting trees or their seeds. ... Dorset (pronounced Dorsit, sometimes in the past called Dorsetshire) is a county in the southwest of England, on the English Channel coast. ...

He is the great uncle of prominent conductor John Eliot Gardiner. John Eliot Gardiner (born April 20, 1943, Fontmell, Dorset, England) is a prominent British conductor famous for his performances of Baroque music on early instruments. ...