Malcolm Arnold
Born: 21 October 1921, Northampton (England)
Died: 23 September 2006, Norfolk (England)
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- Sir Malcolm Arnold dies in Norfolk, England
(25 September 2006)One of the great 20th century British composers. Sir Malcolm Arnold, died last Saturday, 84 years old, in Norfolk, England. Not so long ago, on June 29 2006, he received a Honorary Doctorate from the University of Northampton.
The upcoming 85th anniversary of Sir Malcolm Arnold's was going to be celebrated by BBC Radio 3 by featuring him as composer of the week. Decca recently announced a special edition with 61 works of his concert music. Also several concerts are planned where his 85th birthday was going to be celebrated, one of them being the inaugural Arnold Festival at the Royal & Derngate Theatres on October 21 and 22.
Sir Arnold won an Oscar in 1958 for the film music of movie "The Bridge on the River Kwai", the famous story of British and American prisoners of war in Japan who are forced to build a bridge.
[Source: www.malcolmarnold.co.uk and monstersandcritics.com]
Sheet music
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[details ←] Four Scottish Dances
[details ←] Grand Grand Overture-Full Score
[details ←] Four Scottish Dances ,concert band,
[details ←] The Pre-Goodman Rag Clarinet, ,concert band,
[details ←] Sarabande and Polka from the ballet ’Solitaire’
[details ←] Tam O’Shanter Overture, Op. 51
[details ←] Fantasy-Recorder/Str4tet Recorder,
[details ←] A Flourish ,concert band,
[details ←] A Flourish ,concert band,
[details ←] Peterloo Overture ,concert band,
[details ←] Four Scottish Dances
[details ←] Prelude, Siciliano & Rondo ,concert band,
[details ←] Sarabande and Polka from the ballet ’Solitaire’ ,concert band,
[details ←] Sarabande and Polka from the ballet ’Solitaire’
[details ←] Tam O’Shanter Overture, Op. 51 ,concert band,
[details ←] Tam O’Shanter Overture, Op. 51
[details ←] 2 John Donne Songs Piano, Vocal,
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Biography
[This is from a ‘about this recording’ note of a Naxos disc with 2 of Arnold’s symphonies.]
Malcolm Arnold was born in 1921 in Northampton, where his father was a well-to-do shoe manufacturer. There was music in the family, both from his father and from his mother, a descendant of a former Master of the Chapel Royal. Instead of the usual period at a public school, he was educated privately at home. As a twelve-year-old he found a new interest in the trumpet and in jazz after hearing Louis Armstrong, and three years later he was able to study the instrument in London under Ernest Hall, subsequently winning a scholarship to the Royal College of Music, where his composition teacher was Gordon Jacob. Two years later he left the College to join the London Philharmonic Orchestra as second trumpet. Meanwhile he had won a composition prize for a one-movement string quartet. It was as an orchestral player that he was able to explore the wider orchestral repertoire, in particular the symphonies of Mahler.
Early in the 1939-45 war Arnold was a conscientious objector, in common with a number of other leading musicians. He was allowed to continue his work as an orchestral player, taking the position of first trumpet in the London Philharmonic in 1943. In the same year, however, he volunteered for military service, but was discharged after shooting himself in the foot, playing, thereafter, second trumpet to his teacher Ernest Hall in the BBC Symphony Orchestra and then rejoining the London Philharmonic, where he served as principal trumpet until 1948. During these years he had continued to work as a composer, with a series of successful orchestral compositions, as well as a variety of chamber music.
Since 1948 Malcolm Arnold has earned his living as a composer. In the 1960s he settled in Cornwall, where he became closely involved with the musical activities of the county. In 1972 he moved to Dublin, his home for the next five years, and then, in 1977, to Norfolk. Over the years his work has been much in demand for film scores, of which he has written some eighty. He has written concertos for an amazing variety of instruments, nine numbered symphonies, sinfoniettas, concert overtures and other orchestral works. His chamber music is equally varied and there is a set of works for solo wind and other instruments, aptly meeting the demands of competitive as of solo recital performance.
In style Malcolm Arnold has a command of popular idiom and this may have suggested to some an unfavourable identification with the world of light music. He is, in fact, a composer of considerable stature, technically assured, fluent and prolific, providing music that gives pleasure, but also music that may have a more sombre side, work that may be lyrical and tuneful, or even astringent and harsh in its revelations. Donald Mitchell has compared Arnold, illuminatingly, with Dickens, both of them great entertainers but both well aware of the human predicament, unsettlingly revealed, as he points out, in the remarkable series of symphonies.
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from: Naxos
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by: Edward Elgar, Frederick Delius, Camille Saint-Saens, Antonin Dvorak, Robert Schumann, Arnold Schoenberg, Franz Joseph Haydn, Fryderyk Chopin, Cesar Franck, Gabriel Faure, Max Bruch, Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel, Ludwig van Beethoven, London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli, Malcolm Sargent, Daniel Barenboim, Jacqueline du Pré, Valda Aveling, English Chamber Orchestra, Gerald Moore, Ernest Lush, Stephen Kovacevich
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from: Decca
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