Herbert Murrill
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Herbert Murrill (1909–1952) was an English musician, composer and organist. He was born in London on May 11, 1909 and died there on July 25, 1952.
[edit] Biography
He studied at the Royal Academy of Music from 1925 to 1928 and thereafter was organ scholar at Worcester College, Oxford from 1928 to 1931. From 1933 until his early death, he was Professor of Composition at the Royal Academy of Music. He also worked for the BBC from 1936 until he died (save for a period in the Intelligence Corps between 1942 and 1946), reaching the post of Head of Music in 1950.
[edit] Musical works
His works include a jazz opera, "Man in Cage", which was performed in 1930 whilst he was still at university. He wrote film scores for "And So To Work" (1936) and "The Daily Round" (1937), both early films from the director Richard Massingham. He wrote two cello concertos - he was married to the cellist Vera Canning and some chamber and vocal pieces. However, his most frequently performed works now are from his works for church choir and organ: his setting of the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in E major (published in 1947), an organ piece called Carillon and his arrangement for organ of the orchestral march Crown Imperial by William Walton.
Writing in the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Ronald Crichton says that Murrill's affinities were Francophile and mildly middle-Stravinskian, both influences tempered by an English kind of neo-classicism. [1]
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