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Addinsell retired from public life in the 1960s, gradually becoming estranged from his close friends. He was, for many years, the companion of the fashion designer Victor Stiebel, who died in 1976. Addinsell died in Brighton in 1977 aged 73. His cremation took place at Golders Green Crematorium on 18 November 1977.
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1904-1977. History. English composer Richard Addinsell is best known for his romantic “Warsaw Concerto,” used in the soundtrack for the now mostly forgotten film “Dangerous Moonlight.”. Home-schooled, he studied law in Oxford at Herford College but abandoned the legal field ...
Addinsell survived Stiebel, dying at 73 in London. He left the royalties for Warsaw Concerto to his neighbors, Brigadier W.B. Sallitt (OBE) and his wife Mary in gratitude for their keeping his relationship with Stiebel secret. Addinsell's ashes are at Golders Green, Barnet, London.
- January 13, 1904
- November 14, 1977
Feb 2, 2022 · Richard Addinsell’s Warsaw Concerto is an incredible display of the composer’s grasp of Romantic techniques. From the lavish textures and timbres, to the memorable melodic writing, this ‘tabloid concerto’ is full of drama, emotion and intensity – one not to be missed.
May 29, 2018 · Composer Richard Stewart Addinsell was born in London on January 13, 1904. He was the son of a successful London business man and a mother so protective of her youngest child that his major education came through home schooling.
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He is best remembered now as a composer for British cinema, his career in that medium beginning in 1936 and achieving early and widespread recognition with his score for the Oscar-winning Goodbye, Mr Chips in 1939.
