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Philip Christian Darnton (30 October 1905 – 14 April 1981) was a British composer who wrote modernistic scores to a few feature films and short films for the Canadian Army.〔(British film music by John Huntley )〕 He was born in Leeds as Philip Christian von Schunck, the son of John Edward von Schunk, landowner, and Mary Illingsworth. Christian's paternal grandfather, born in Leipzig but who later settled in Britain, was part of an old German family that had, since 1715, held a Barony in the Holy Roman Empire. This grandfather - Edward, Baron von Schunck - married Kate Lupton, born into the progressive, land-owning and political Lupton family, and educated at the school of her relative Rachel Martineau.〔Lupton, C.A. , ''The Lupton Family in Leeds'', Wm. Harrison and Son 1965.〕 Edward died in 1889, but Kate survived him until 1913, the eve of the First World War, and insisted in her will that their only son, John Edward von Schunck, change his surname to that of her father, Darnton Lupton, the former Mayor of Leeds. Thus he and his children acquired by Royal Licence the name Darnton. Christian Darnton's father, John Edward, had two sisters, both of whom married, making Christian the nephew of Albert Kitson, 2nd Baron Airedale. The family was extremely well-off and he was educated at home by a governess until he was nine, when he began composing. Darnton composed the overture ''Stalingrad'' during World War II, and works for different combinations.〔(The Glasgow Herald - 16 December 1943 )〕 He had joined the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1941.〔(The Bulletin - 14 June 1955 )〕 His Communist views may have later hurt his popularity and led to his becoming relatively obscure.〔(The land without music: music, culture and society in twentieth-century Britain by Andrew Blake, pgs 43 and 57 )〕 He also criticized the term "English Musical Renaissance", feeling England produced no "composer of international consequence" in that period.〔(The English musical renaissance, 1840-1940: constructing a national music by Meirion Hughes, R. A. Stradling, pgs 197 and 198 )〕 == Selected works == * ''Concertino'' for Piano and Chamber Orchestra, 1926 * ''1. Symphony'', 1929–31 * ''Piano concert'', 1933 * ''Concert for Viola and Strings'', 1933–35 * ''Harp concert'', 1934 * ''Suite concertante'' for Violin and Chamber Orchestra, 1936 * ''2. Symphony (Anagram)'', 1939–40 * ''Ballad of Freedom'', Cantata, 1941–52 * ''Stalingrad'', Overture, 1943 * ''3. Symphony D-dur'', 1944–45, rev. 1961 * ''Fantasy Fair'', Opera, 1949–51 * ''Jet Pilot'', Cantata, 1952 * ''Concerto for Orchestra'', 1970–73 * ''4. Symphony'', 1975–79 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「Christian Darnton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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