- Before his teens he was giving recitals and, in his later years, he used to enjoy telling how he received what he then regarded as the ultimate accolade - being invited by the Douglas municipal authorities to play for holiday-makers for two weeks in succession. At that time apparently, no one was ever engaged for more than one week.
- Wood's exceptional abilities were eventually given wider recognition with the awarding to him at the age of fifteen of an open scholarship to the Royal College of Music where he was able to benefit from the tuition of Enrique Fernandez Arbos for violin, and Sir Charles Villiers Stanford for composition.
- His last song appears to have been Give Me Your Hand in 1957.
- In 2018 the BBC Concert Orchestra issued a new recording of the Snapshots of London Suite (1948) and premiere recordings of five other suites: Egypta (1929), Three Famous Cinema Stars (1929), Cities of Romance (1937), Manx Countryside Sketches (1943), and Royal Castles (1952).
- Although his first name was pronounced Hayden rather than in the manner of the great Franz Joseph, it was, nonetheless, Austria's famous musical son who dictated the nomenclature. Just days before his wife was due to produce her off-spring, the future composer's father took himself off to hear a performance of - appropriately enough - The Creation and duly vowed that if the new arrival were to be a boy, he would christen it Haydn. The gender requirement being fulfilled, the promised name was accordingly bestowed.
- Haydn Wood was born into a musical family in the Yorkshire town of Slaithwaite.
- The young Wood was only two when the family moved to the Isle of Man and it was here that he spent his childhood years.
- On the occasion of his 70th birthday in 1952 he was given a full concert dedicated to his music by the BBC.
- At the special concert commemorating the opening of the Royal College of Music's Concert Hall on June 13, 1901 when Wood was the solo violinist he was send to Brussels for special training under the world-renowned teacher, Cesar Thomson.
- He was introduced to no less a person than Joseph Joachim, who was visiting London. The great Hungarian-born virtuoso was highly impressed with the young man's playing and, on his return to the capital three years later, went to the College with the express intention of hearing Wood once again.
- It seems astonishing that a composer whose output boasted a substantial body of orchestral works including 15 suites, 9 rhapsodies, 8 overtures, 3 big concertante pieces and nearly 50 other assorted items; six choral compositions, some chamber music - notably a string quartet and over a dozen instrumental solos - 7 song cycles and something in excess of 200 individual songs, should today be remembered more or less by just three of those vocal items (Roses of Picardy, A Brown Bird Singing and Love's Garden of Roses) and a single movement of his London Landmarks Suite - Horse Guards, Whitehall.
- His two older brothers were also musicians: Harry (1868-1939) was a violinist, composer and conductor known as "Manxland's King of Music", while Daniel S Wood (1872-1927) was principal flautist with the London Symphony Orchestra from 1910, taught flute at the Royal Academy of Music and composed practice pieces that are still in use today.
- Within a remarkably short space of time, he had earned a local reputation as a child prodigy.
- On completion of his studies with the Belgian maestro Cesar Thomson, Haydn Wood embarked on a world tour as solo violinist with the soprano, Mme. Emma Albani, the most popular oratorio singer of her day.
- Occasionally, Wood would take to the conductor's rostrum, usually to direct his own pieces - he was, in fact, given his own programme by the BBC on the occasion of his 70th birthday - and, from 1939, he served as a Director of the Performing Rights Society.
- His final years were spent relatively quietly and he eventually died in a London nursing-home on March 11, 1959, two weeks before his 77th birthday.
- The Isle of Man and folk tunes from the island inspired Wood's music, resulting in the compositions Manx Rhapsody (Mylecharaine), Manx Countryside Sketches, Manx Overture, and the tone poem Mannin Veen.
- By 1926 he was able to support himself as a full time composer for the first time.
- Wood also wrote a Symphony (1908 - score now lost), and the Philharmonic Variations for cello and orchestra (1939).
- Roses of Picardy, Wood's most enduring and surely for him most financially profitable composition, appeared in 1916.
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