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Date of Birth

13 January 1904, London, England, UK

Date of Death

15 November 1977, Chelsea, London, England, UK

Birth Name

Richard Stewart Addinsell

Mini Biography

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.

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Trivia

His famous 'Warsaw Concerto', a Rachmaninoff like piece for piano and orchestra composed for the RKO picture Dangerous Moonlight (1941), is still being performed.

He used to play the piano accompniant for 'Nora Langhorne' when she performed her touring show of comic songs and sketches "Joyce Grenfell Requests the Pleasure".

Composed a number of "start-up" pieces and fanfares for Great Britian's Associated-Rediffusion TV service.

Studied law at Hertford College.

Began to compose aged 21.

First musical score was for the theatre "Adam's Opera" by Clemence Dane (1928)

Went to New York in 1933 to write and supervise music for a stage version of "Alice in Wonderland"

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