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Leonard Salzedo (1921-2000)
Leonard Salzedo, the most Spanish of British composers, was born in London in 1921. He began learning the violin at the age of six and started composing when he was twelve. In 1940 he became a student at the Royal College of Music where he won the Cobbett Prize, in 1942, for his first string quartet. While still a student, he was commissioned to write his first ballet The Fugitive in 1944 which was performed more than four hundred times by the Ballet Rambert. From 1947 to 1950 he was a member of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and from 1950 to 1966 he was a member of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under Sir Thomas Beecham, who premiered two of his works at the Royal Festival Hall. The most successful of his seventeen ballet scores is The Witch Boy, first performed in Amsterdam in May, 1956. Since then, it has been performed almost three thousand times in over thirty-three countries by ballet companies around the world and has been seen on television in Germany, Japan and New Zealand, etc. In 1966, Salzedo was appointed Music Director of the Ballet Rambert, a post he held until 1972 when he became Principal Conductor of the Scottish Ballet. More recently, he was Music Director of the London City Ballet from 1982 to 1986. Until his death in May, 2000, Leonard Salzedo devoted himself almost entirely to composition. Please read these articles about Leonard Salzedo:
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