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Louis Boyd Neel (19 July 190530 September 1981) was an English (and later Canadian) conductor and academic. He is perhaps best known for revitalizing the genre of the chamber orchestra. ==Early years== Neel was born in Blackheath, London, and wanted to be a pianist as a child.〔See (Time Magazine profile )〕 His mother, Ruby Le Couteur, was a professional accompanist, and his father was an engineer. Destined for the Royal Navy, Neel went to Osborne naval college and then to Dartmouth. Soon after he was commissioned, the armed forces underwent a drastic reduction (the so-called ‘Geddes Axe’), and Neel left the navy to study medicine at Caius College, Cambridge. He qualified in 1930, and became House Surgeon and Physician at Saint George's Hospital, London, and Resident Doctor at King Edward VII’s Hospital, London.〔The Gramophone, p 178〕 In 1930, while practising medicine, Neel studied music theory and orchestration at the Guildhall School of Music.〔See, e.g., Neel's entry in (The Encyclopedia of Music in Canada )〕 ==The Boyd Neel Orchestra== For Neel, at this stage, music was still a hobby. He conducted amateur groups and was persuaded to form an orchestra of young professionals, whom he recruited in 1932 from the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music. The Boyd Neel London String Orchestra (later the Boyd Neel Orchestra) made its debut at the Aeolian Hall, London, on 22 June 1933. After the concert, Neel returned to his surgery and delivered a baby. By December 1933, the orchestra was invited to broadcast by the BBC. When Decca offered Neel and the orchestra a contract, he left medicine to devote himself full-time to music.〔 Among the Boyd Neel Orchestra's early releases were the first recordings of Vaughan Williams's ''Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis'' and Britten's ''Simple Symphony''. Neel conducted the first music heard in the new Glyndebourne opera house in 1934, in private performances, at John Christie's invitation.〔 In 1937, Neel and his orchestra were invited to the Salzburg Festival, for which Neel commissioned Britten’s ''Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge''.〔 The orchestra toured Great Britain and Europe until 1939.〔Stone, David. (Boyd Neel ) at ''Who Was Who in the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company'' (2001)〕 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「Boyd Neel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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