Peter Tranchell
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Peter Andrew Tranchell (14 July 1922–14 September 1993) was a British composer.
His compositions included the opera The Mayor of Casterbridge (1951), anthems, and a cantata. He was also a composer of light music with such output including vocal "entertainments", instrumental miniatures and the musical comedy Zuleika (after Max Beerbohm) produced in Cambridge in 1954 and revived in 1957.
[edit] Biography
Peter Tranchell was born at Cuddalore, India, on July 14, 1922, and educated at the Dragon School, Clifton College and King's College, Cambridge.
During the Second World War he served in the Army after which he resumed his Cambridge studies.
He was Lecturer in Music at the University of Cambridge from 1950 to 1989. From 1960 to 1989 he was Fellow and director of studies of music at at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. As Praecentor of the college he directed the chapel choir.
He was a contributor to the Dictionary of National Biography.
He died on 14 September 1993 at Winchester.
[edit] Selected works
- Ballets
Falstaff (1950)
Fate's Revenge (1951), performed by Ballet Rambert at the Lyric, Hammersmith
Images of Love, (1964) produced at Covent Garden with choreography by Kenneth MacMillan
- Operas & musicals
The Mayor Of Casterbridge (1951)
Zuleika (1954)
Thackeray Ditties (1962)
His First Mayweek (1963)
- Instrumental works
Organ Sonata (1958)
- Choral works
Te Deum in E (1975)
This Sorry Scheme of Things (1953)
The Joyous Year (1961)
