Sir George Alexander Macfarren was an English composer and musicologist. The "Chevy Chace" overture and two of his symphonies have been recorded (his fourth and seventh, by the Queensland Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Werner Andreas Albert. It is possible that the fourth symphony is the F minor symphony that was played in 1834 by the Society of British Musicians. Among Macfarren's operas were King Charles II, produced at the Princess's Theatre in 1849 (Natalia Macfarren made her operatic debut in this production), and an adaptation of Robin Hood produced in 1860…