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He was born at [[Kensington]] (London), began to play at the age of 5 and to compose at 9.<ref>[[Arthur Eaglefield Hull|Eaglefield Hull, Arthur]] (ed.). ''A Dictionary of Modern Musicians'' (1924), p. 175</ref> Between his conventional education at [[Charterhouse School]] and [[New College, Oxford]], where he obtained only a pass degree, Gardiner was a piano student at the [[Hoch Conservatory]] in Frankfurt, where he was taught by [[Iwan Knorr]] and [[Lazzaro Uzielli]], who had been a pupil of [[Clara Schumann]]. He belonged to the [[Frankfurt Group]], a circle of composers who studied at the Hoch Conservatory in the late 1890s.<ref>Scott, Cyril. 'The late Balfour Gardiner and our Student Days', ''Music Teacher'' xxix (1950) 396</ref> With [[George Barnet Gardiner|George Gardiner]] (no relation) he collected folk songs in Hampshire (1905–1906),<ref name="Marrowbones">Purslow, F; Marrowbones, English Folk Songs from the Hammond and Gardiner Collections; London; 2007 pp xvi–xvii</ref>
<ref>J. Simpson and S. Roud, ''A Dictionary of English Folklore'' (Oxford: OUP, 2000), 140.</ref> taught music briefly at [[Winchester College]] (1907), and composed. His works included compositions in a variety of genres, including two [[symphony|symphonies]] (No 2 premiered at the [[The Proms|Proms]] in 1908),<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=NHdVK2-3ITkC&q=Symphony Lloyd, Stephen. ''H Balfour Gardiner'' (2005)]</ref> but many of his scores, including the symphonies, are lost
His best-known work ''[[Te lucis ante terminum (Gardiner)|Evening Hymn]]'' (1908), a setting of the [[compline]] hymn "[[Te lucis ante terminum]]", is a lush, romantic work for eight-part choir and organ, of dense harmonies. For most of the time, it sits in four parts, though the treble, alto, tenor, and bass parts all subdivide at various points. It is considered a classic of the English choral repertoire and is still regularly performed as an [[anthem]] at [[Evening Prayer (Anglican)|Evensong]] in [[Church of England|Anglican]] churches.<ref>[https://www.chandos.net/products/catalogue/SIG%20446 ''The Evening Hour''], Signum 446 (2016)</ref>
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