1. John Herbert Foulds was an English cellist and composer of classical music.
15 Facts About John Foulds
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John Foulds was largely self-taught as a composer, and belongs among the figures of the English Musical Renaissance.
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John Foulds was born in Hulme, Manchester, England, on 2 November 1880, the son of a bassoonist in the Halle Orchestra.
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Prolific from childhood, John Foulds himself joined the Halle as a cellist in 1900, having already served an apprenticeship in theatre and promenade orchestras in England and abroad.
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In some respects ahead of his time, John Foulds was in others an intensely practical musician.
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John Foulds wrote the score for Casson's highly successful West End production of Shakespeare's Henry VIII, which ran from December 1925 to March 1926.
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John Foulds moved to London before World War I, and in 1915 during the war he met the violinist Maud MacCarthy, one of the leading Western authorities on Indian music.
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When interest in the World Requiem lapsed, John Foulds suffered a grave setback and in 1927 left for Paris, working there as an accompanist for silent films.
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John Foulds was so successful that he was asked to open a branch of the radio station in Calcutta.
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John Foulds was responsible for banning the use of the harmonium on Indian music broadcast on radio.
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Unfortunately, many of the manuscripts were damaged: apparently, rats and ants had got at them while they were in India, where John Foulds' wife stayed after his death.
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John Foulds was only 21 when he married librarian Dora Woodcock in 1902.
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John Foulds was seven years his senior and the daughter of a Yorkshire-born bookseller who had settled in Llandudno.
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John Foulds met his musical soul mate Maud MacCarthy in 1915, after moving to London.
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John Foulds was married to William Mann, with whom she had a daughter Joan, born in 1913.