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Arnold died at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, Norwich, on 23 September 2006, aged 84, after suffering from a chest infection. That same day his last work, The Three Musketeers , was premiered in a Northern Ballet production at the Bradford Alhambra .
- Early Life
- Early Struggles and Successes
- The Reputation Paradox
- At The Height of His Powers
- Reassessment
Malcolm Henry Arnold was born in 1921, and alongside the tumultuous political events around the world, this was a time of profound cultural change. In the same year, the first birth control clinic opened, insulin was isolated, the Miss America competition appeared, and Chanel patented their new No. 5 fragrance. Perhaps most importantly for the life...
Arnold’s prodigious talent as a composer was immediately clear, and only two years later, as both the NHS and the State of Israel were born, Ghandi was assassinated and the MW Empire Windrush arrived in Britain, he left the LPO to pursue a full-time career in composition. 1948 was an exciting time to be writing, but the musical landscape was compli...
And yet here we encounter the paradox of Arnold’s dual reputations as a composer for the concert platform and for the screen. Repeatedly through the late 1940s he was criticised for the violence and dissonance of his concert music. His First Symphony (1949) took a long time to become established, while Henri Christophewas rejected by the Festival o...
By 1961, the year of Arnold’s Fifth Symphony, now widely regarded as his greatest, the world had changed beyond recognition. Algeria has achieved independence after a bloody war, South Africa was leaving the commonwealth, The US and Cuba had broken off relations, and in America itself the Civil Rights movement was gathering pace. The first ICBM was...
Fortunately, the world did not wait for the obligatory death-plus-fifteen-years to begin a serious reassessment of his reputation. That began in 1991 with his seventieth birthday celebration at the BBC Proms, and appropriately, given the world he had been born into and lived through, was also the year which saw the end of the Cold War and Apartheid...
Mar 28, 2021 · Anthony Day, who died of cancer in 2019, is known because of his involvement in the long and bitter battle over the inheritance of the Arnold Estate. However, the Malcolm Arnold Society offers a refreshingly balanced overview of his role, saying that "Anthony was responsible for the not-always-easy Malcolm...
Nov 11, 2020 · The daughter of an Oscar-winning composer has urged the government to save a collection of her late father's papers compiled during a troubled time. Sir Malcolm Arnold, one of Britain's most ...
Apr 5, 2018 · That was how Malcolm Arnold described the years between 1965 and 1972 when, with his second wife Isobel, he lived at St Merryn in Cornwall. Eager to escape the pressures of living in London they moved just after their marriage to Primrose Cottage – actually a row of three-hundred year old fisherman’s cottages converted into one – in the ...
Nov 26, 2021 · There were numerous infidelities, and the breakdown of that first marriage and then another; by the 1970s, he had tried to commit suicide twice. Arnold checked himself into a hospital on the...
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Apr 25, 2020 · Sir Malcolm Arnold with his Oscar (Photo: courtesy Malcolm Arnold Estate) With his new wife and infant son Edward, who was born in Cornwall, he threw himself enthusiastically into the musical life of the County, in particular Brass Bands and specifically the Cornwall Youth Brass Band.
