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William Alwyn CBE (born William Alwyn Smith; 7 November 1905 – 11 September 1985), was an English composer, conductor, and music teacher.
William Alwyn was born in Northampton on the 7 th November 1905, and died in Southwold Suffolk on 11 th September 1985 just two months short of what would have been his eightieth birthday. He began his musical studies in 1920 aged just fifteen studying flute, piano, and composition at London’s Royal Academy of Music where in 1926, at the age ...
Jun 8, 2018 · William Alwyn was the most successful British example of a composer dividing his creativity between absolute music and film composition. Between 1941 and 1963 he scored almost 80 films, while at the same time producing an extensive catalogue of concert, choral, and chamber works.
British composer William Alwyn (November 7, 1905 - September 11, 1985), born William Alwyn Smith, is what baseball fans like to call a "pheenom". He not only wrote music, he wrote poetry, translated French poetry, and painted, all at a highly impressive level.
William Alwyn. Virtuoso flautist and composer who taught at London's Royal Academy of Music as a professor from 1926 to 1955. During the war years, he was employed by the Ministry of Information, where he came to the fore as a composer of scores for documentary films which were used for morale building, the instruction of troops and for propaganda.
WILLIAM ALWYN was born in 1905 in Northampton, a town renowned far more for making boots than for its artistic life. Thus it came about that his important early contacts with live music included listening to military bands in the local park. He was particularly attracted to the piccolo.
William Alwyn (1905-1985) - Symphony no.2 - con moto - molto moderato - quasi adagio molto calmato (1/4)Royal Liverpool Philharmonic OrchestraDir. David Lloy...
