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Richard Stewart Addinsell (13 January 1904 – 14 November 1977) [1] was an English composer, best known for film music, primarily his Warsaw Concerto, composed for the 1941 film Dangerous Moonlight (also known under the later title Suicide Squadron).
Nov 17, 1977 · Richard Addinsell, the British composer of film, theater and television scores, whose “Warsaw” Concerto achieved popularity during World War II, died Tuesday at his London home.
English composer Richard Addinsell was born in 1904. After finishing his law studies at Oxford, he took a short course in music at the Royal College of Music in London and studied from 1929 to 1932 in Berlin and Vienna. From 1933 to 1935 he lived in the USA writing scores for the Hollywood studios.
- January 13, 1904
- November 14, 1977
May 29, 2018 · 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. Addinsell briefly attended Hertford School, Oxford, where he began to read Law, but his interest in music soon led him—briefly—to the Royal College of Music. In 1926 Addinsell's natural ...
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Richard Addinsell was born in Woburn Square, London, to William Arthur Addinsell, who was a chartered accountant, and his wife, Annie Beatrice Richards. The younger of two brothers, Addinsell was educated at home before attending Hertford College, Oxford, to study law but left after just 18 months. He then became interested in music.
In 1925, he enrolled at the Royal College of Music but lasted only two terms before leaving, again without obtaining any formal qualification. By this time Addinsell was already collaborating with Noel Gay, among others, in an André Charlot Revue. More work for Charlot in 1927 was followed in 1928 by a collaboration with Clemence Dane on Adam's Ope...
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. His funeral took place at Golders GreenCrematorium.. In 1999 it was revealed that the royalties for Warsaw Concertoh...
Based on a Wikipedia article. 1. Jump up "Addinsell, Richard (Stewart)" in Don Michael Randel, ed. The Harvard biographical dictionary of music, 1996 Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press isbn=0-674-37299-9 2. Jump up to: 2.0 2.1 2.2 Lamb, Andrew (2004). http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/62775 "Addinsell, Richard Stewart (1904–1977)". Oxford Dic...
The Warsaw Concerto is a short work for piano and orchestra by Richard Addinsell, written for the 1941 British film Dangerous Moonlight, which is about the Polish struggle against the 1939 invasion by Nazi Germany. In performance it normally lasts just under ten minutes.
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Richard Stewart Addinsell was born on 13th January 1904 in London, the younger of two sons of a successful businessman father and adoring mother, who became very protective of him, to the extent that he was educated at home. Some might say this made him rather wary of institutions of all kinds thereafter.
