143) Stanley Herbert Wilson made a living as a music teacher for most of his life, teaching Anthony Payne, Alan Hacker and Christopher Field among others. He also composed a series of full scale concertos, choral works and two symphonies in the 20s and 30s. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley... #jawiki
142) Eric Wetherell, most likely remembered today as a music author, but he was also a composer throughout his life. A memorial concert was held for him at St Mary Redcliffe Church on 19 November 2022, and it was recorded. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_We... www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4Of... #jawiki
141) Among those who established the Westminster Music Library: critics Edwin Evans and Harold Rutland (both donated their own libraries), pianist composer Winifred Christie and her composer husband Emánuel Moór, librarians Lionel McColvin and Dorothy Lawton en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westmin... #jawiki
140) Rosabel Watson founded the Aeolian Ladies’ Orchestra in 1886, perhaps the UK's first all-female orchestra. She advised and directed music at RSC Stratford from 1916 to 1944, and directed music at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre from 1933 to 1953 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosabel... #jawiki
139) Composer pianist Constance Warren studied piano with Maria Levinskaya (also a fascinating character) & Clifford Curzon. Her pupils at Birmingham Conservatoire included Brian Ferneyhough. Heather Hill (1930) is for strings www.youtube.com/watch?v=SduC... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constan... #jawiki
138) Ivor Walsworth, now forgotten BBC producer, composer of jazz-tinged neoclassical works in the 1930s, four symphonies, uncompromising Piano Sonata in 1949, and (in the 1960s) electronic pieces with his Radiophonic Workshop friend Daphne Oram en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivor_Wa... #jawiki
137) Harry Waldo Warner, viola player & composer, one of the founding members of the London String Quartet. His A minor piano Trio won first prize at Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge's 1921 chamber music competition in Massachusetts #jawiki en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_W... www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvTb...
136) Alfred M Wall, violinist composer associated with the Newcastle Conservatoire. Formed the Alfred Wall Quartet, and later the Tirril Moor Quartette, which included his daughters Rosina (viola) and Dulcie (cello), founders of the Newton Abbot Orchestra en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_... #jawiki
135) Percy Turnbull had a job editing piano rolls at the Aeolian Company under boss-from-hell Percy Scholes. He later worked for Hubert Foss at OUP and taught piano. A friend of John Ireland, he composed many character pieces en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_T... #jawiki www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUtE...
134) Bertha Thomas, author of the 1880 novel The Violin Player, one of the key narratives of female musicality in Victorian literature, was the sister of composer Florence Ashton Marshall and wrote the libretto for Marshall's operetta Prince Sprite in 1891 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_... #jawiki
133) Test card music. Somehow the music side of things was left out of the "Test Card" entry, so I added a short summary. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_ca... #jawiki
132) Wallace Southam, amateur song composer lauded by Colin Wilson in Brandy of the Damned (1964). His "jazz lieder" settings, also noted by Lawrence Durrell, Wilfrid Mellers & Leonard Salzedo, were performed by Belle Gonzales #jawiki en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace... www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5Vf...
131) David Snell, harpist who has spanned genres. Studied with Marie Goossens, played with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and ROH, but also with John Dankworth, Tubby Hayes, Zoot Sims, Kenny Wheeler, Incredible String Band. Also a composer. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_S... #jawiki
129) Lionel Salter, a classic BBC musician, with the Corporation most of his career, one of the key people who established the Third Programme (with Glock, Keller etc). He also helped establish outside broadcast techniques used for concerts, ballet and opera en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_... #jawiki
128) Harold Rutland, friend of John Ireland, played piano 2 hands with Constant Lambert for wartime touring ballet. His first performance of the Fragment for Harold Rutland by Sorabji was received "with a mixture of derision, indignation, and bewilderment". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_... #jawiki
127) Daniel Ruyneman, Dutch composer, pianist, inventor of the Electrophone, an instrument with various electric bells playable from a keyboard. Its cup-bells were either cast by the John Taylor bell foundry, Loughborough, or found in a London junk shop en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_... #jawiki
126) Eleanor Rudall, composer and pianist, who after a promising start struggled to find more widespread recognition. The second wife of composer Frederick Corder, she lived at 13, Albion Road (now Harben Road), South Hampstead, until her death in 1960 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor... #jawiki
125) Royal College of Music war memorial. Intrigued by the names I tried to find more about them. As many were students still developing careers, and others were staff with no public persona, details are still sparse. But the RCM Magazine is a useful resource en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_C... #jawiki
124) Francis Routh (died November 2021) was a composer and author, but also the long-term organiser of the Redcliffe Concert Series - I attended many of them in the 70s and 80s at the QEH and Purcell Room - including the 21st Anniversary events below (4/21) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis... #jawiki
122) Kathleen Riddick, one of the pioneers who opened up the world of conducting to women musicians in Britain. She inspired Ruth Gipps to begin her own conducting career. (3/21) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathlee... #jawiki
121) Helen Pyke - I wrote about her after finding this sheet music in a second hand shop. A composer pianist (1905-1954) who, with Paul Hamburger, appropriately gave the premiere of Alan Rawsthorne's The Creel in 1940. She married musicologist Mosco Carner. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_P... #jawiki
120) John Pudney - a jobbing author who made his living from non-fiction, often commissioned by companies. But also a popular WW2 war poet, anthologist, novelist, unflinching autobiographer and children's writer (4/20) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Pu... #jawiki
119) Stephen Pruslin was an American pianist and librettist who relocated to London in the 1970s to work with Peter Maxwell Davies and Harrison Birtwistle. In January 1989 he appeared in an episode of ITV's Agatha Christie's Poirot as a pianist. (10/22) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen... #jawiki
117) Montague Phillips, composer of the popular operetta The Rebel Maid (1921) was also a symphonist, and an organist in Esher for over 43 years. He married the singer Clara Butterworth and composed 100+ "royalty ballad" for her to perform (2/22) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montagu... #jawiki
Helen Perkin, pianist and composer, pupil of John Ireland. She premiered his Eb Piano Concerto on 30 October 1930, and was the soloist in the first performance of his Legend four years later. But after her marriage in 1935 they stopped talking. (7/22) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_P... #jawiki
114) Mary and Geraldine Peppin, twin sister pianists & influential piano teachers, Unity Theatre activists and perhaps some espionage on the side. James Gibb said of them: "Their ensemble was as near perfection as I have ever heard in duo-playing" (1/21) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_an... #jawiki
113) King Palmer was a jobbing composer for the theatre before the war, then in library and film music after. In 1944 he wrote Teach Yourself to Compose Music, a splendidly clear guide to basic harmony, rhythm and form (10/18) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Pa... #jawiki www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcc4...
110) Composer Herbert Murrill. Was he just an archetypal BBC Music Department insider, "home to the dispossessed of English musical life, where frustrated composers & academics licked their wounds passing judgement over their more successful contemporaries"? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert... #jawiki
The National Symphony Orchestra (UK) was founded & funded by rich amateur conductor Sidney Beer (who spent the rest of his money on the racecourse). The orchestra engaged top players, many later become key members of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (10/24) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationa... #jawiki
108) List of musical families (classical). Still not sure why I put this together, it originally came out of the entry I did on the Grimson musical family, then just grew and grew. Still far from any sort of completeness (7/25) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of... #jawiki
