Adrian Cruft
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Adrian Francis Cruft (10 February 1921 – 20 February 1987) was a British composer.
Cruft, who was the son of the double-bass player Eugene Cruft, was educated at Westminster Abbey Choir School, Westminster School, and finally as a Boult conducting scholar at the Royal College of Music from 1938, completing his studies there briefly in 1946-1947, after service in World War II. He was a composition student of Gordon Jacob and Edmund Rubbra, but also studied double bass with his father. Cruft became chairman of the Composers' Guild of Great Britain 1966.[1]
Cruft, called a "performers' composer" by Roderick Swanston in an article in The Musical Times a couple of years after his death, was, as a young chorister at Westminster Abbey, influenced by the revival of Tudor music, and later by the counterpoint of Bach.[2] Grove's music dictionary calls his music "diatonic, firmly based in tradition and generally straightforward in idiom". He composed church music, but also orchestral works and chamber music.[3]
[edit] Notes
- ^ Roderick Swanston, "The music of Adrian Cruft", The Musical Times, 1991, p. 119-123
- ^ Roderick Swanston, "The music of Adrian Cruft", The Musical Times, 1991, p. 119
- ^ Hugh Cole & John Cruft, "Cruft, Adrian (Francis)", Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (Accessed 3 May 2006).
[edit] References
- Cole, Hugh & Cruft, John, "Cruft, Adrian (Francis)", Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (Accessed 3 May 2006).
- Rubbra, Edmund, "The music of Adrian Cruft", The Musical Times, 1969, p. 822-825.
- Swanston, Roderick, "The music of Adrian Cruft", The Musical Times, 1991, p. 119-123.
[edit] External links
- Adrian Cruft's papers are held in the archives of the Royal College of Music: Adrian Cruft's papers in the AIM25 database (Archives in London and the M25 area).
