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Albert William Ketèlbey (; 9 August 1875 – 26 November 1959), born Ketelbey, was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He was born in Birmingham, England, and moved to London to study. Ketèlbey became musical director of the Vaudeville Theatre before gaining fame as a composer of light music and as a conductor of his own works. After the Second World War, his works became neglected and he died in obscurity at his home on the Isle of Wight. ==Biography== Ketèlbey was born on Alma Street in the Lozells area of Birmingham, England. He was the second of five children born to an engraver, George Henry Ketelbey, and his wife, Sarah Ann Aston, (Albert added the accent to his surname when he began to be published.〔) At the age of eleven he wrote a piano sonata that won praise from Edward Elgar. Ketèlbey gained a scholarship to the Trinity College of Music〔 in London, where he showed a talent for playing various instruments using masterfully colourful orchestration, especially of oriental inspiration, that became his trademark. At Trinity, he beat Gustav Holst in competition for a musical scholarship. He used the pseudonyms Raoul Clifford and Anton Vodorinski for some of his works〔 (some reference books mistakenly give Vodorinski as his true name and Ketèlbey as the pseudonym). Ketèlbey held a number of positions, including organist at St. John's, Wimbledon, before being appointed musical director of London's Vaudeville Theatre, where he met his future wife Charlotte (Lottie) Siegenberg (1871–1947), an actress and singer.〔 Whilst at the Vaudeville, he continued writing diverse vocal and instrumental music. Later, he became famous for composing popular light music, much of which was used as accompaniments to silent films, and as mood music at tea dances. Success enabled him to relinquish his London appointments. Once, at a Royal Command Performance, Ketèlbey gave a second rendering of the State Procession movement of his ''Cockney Suite'' during the interval, at the request of King George V. He was active in several other fields, including acting as music editor to some well-known publishing houses. For more than twenty years from 1906, he served as Musical Director of the Columbia Graphophone Company, where over 600 recordings were issued with him conducting the Court Symphony Orchestra, the Silver Stars Band, and other ensembles.〔 Although not proven, he is frequently quoted as becoming Britain's first millionaire composer. In 1929, he was proclaimed in the ''Performing Right Gazette'' as "Britain's greatest living composer", on the basis of the number of performances of his works. Ketèlbey and Lottie Siegenberg had a long and happy marriage, which ended with her death in February 1947; in October 1948 he married Mabel Maud Pritchett. There were no children by either marriage. He died at his home, Rookstone, Egypt Hill in Cowes, where he had moved to concentrate on writing and his hobby of playing billiards. His work fell out of favour after the Second World War. At the time of his death he had slipped into obscurity, with only a handful of mourners at his funeral, held at Golders Green crematorium.〔 In the 21st century, Ketèlbey's music is still frequently heard on radio. In a 2003 poll by the BBC radio programme ''Your Hundred Best Tunes'', "Bells Across the Meadows" was voted thirty-sixth most popular tune of all time. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Albert Ketèlbey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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