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William Alwyn , born William Alwyn Smith〔Ian Johnson, ''William Alwyn: The Art of Film Music'' (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2005), ISBN 1-84383-159-7.〕 (7 November 1905 – 11 September 1985), was an English composer, conductor, and music teacher. ==Life and music== William Alwyn was born in Northampton, where he showed an early interest in music and began to learn to play the piccolo. At the age of 15 he entered the Royal Academy of Music in London where he studied flute and composition. He was a virtuoso flautist and for a time was a flautist with the London Symphony Orchestra.〔William Alwyn, Winged Chariot ''Composing in words'' (London: Toccata Press, 2009) ISBN 978-0-907689-71-3〕 Alwyn served as professor of composition at the Royal Academy of Music from 1926 to 1955.〔Mervyn Cooke, "Alwyn, William", ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'', edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (New York: Grove's Dictionaries, 2001).〕 William Alwyn had a remarkable range of talents. He was a distinguished polyglot, poet, and artist, as well as musician.〔 He helped found the Composers' Guild of Great Britain (now merged into the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors), and was its chairman in 1949, 1950 and 1954.〔(English Music Festival: Composer Profiles ). Accessed 27 April 2013〕 His compositional output was varied and large and included five symphonies, four operas, several concertos, film scores and string quartets. Alwyn wrote over 70 film scores from 1941 to 1962. His classic film scores included ''Odd Man Out'', ''Desert Victory'', ''Fires Were Started'', ''The History of Mr. Polly'', ''The Fallen Idol'', ''The Black Tent'' and ''The Crimson Pirate''. Some of the scores have been lost, although many scores and sketches are now in the William Alwyn Archive at Cambridge University Library. In recent years CD recordings have been made. Some works, for which only fragmentary sketches remained, were reconstructed by Philip Lane or Christopher Palmer from the film soundtracks themselves.〔Philip Lane, "Reconstructing Film Scores", ''William Alwyn Society Newsletter'' (December 1997).〕 Alwyn relished dissonance, and devised his own alternative to twelve-tone serialism. For instance, in his third symphony (1955–56), eight notes of the possible twelve are used in the first movement, with the remaining four (D, E, F, and A-flat) constituting the middle movement, and all twelve being combined for the finale. The work was premièred by Sir Thomas Beecham. Alwyn's concerto for harp and string orchestra, ''Lyra Angelica'', was popularized when the American figure skater Michelle Kwan performed to it at the 1998 Winter Olympics.〔Michelle Kwan at the 1998 Olympics. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZEfmMOpQGk&feature=related〕 William Alwyn lived at Lark Rise, Dunwich Road, Blythburgh, Suffolk,〔Correspondence in the William Alwyn Archive, Cambridge University Library〕 and died in Southwold, Suffolk, England, in 1985. He was survived by his second wife, the composer Doreen Carwithen. (The actor Gary Cooper was a cousin of his, on Alwyn's mother's side.) 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「William Alwyn」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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