1. Richard Stewart Addinsell was an English composer, best known for film music, primarily his Warsaw Concerto, composed for the 1941 film Dangerous Moonlight.
12 Facts About Richard Addinsell
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Richard Addinsell was born in Woburn Square, London, to William Arthur Addinsell, who was a chartered accountant, and his wife, Annie Beatrice Richards.
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The younger of two brothers, Addinsell was educated at home before attending Hertford College, Oxford, to study Law but went down after just 18 months.
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Richard Addinsell scored Hitchcock's Under Capricorn, referencing Irish folk melody in the score to support the Irish characters and their history.
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Richard Addinsell wrote the short orchestral piece Southern Rhapsody, which was played every morning at the start of TV broadcasts by the former Southern Television company in the south of England from 1958 to 1981.
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Richard Addinsell collaborated from 1942 with Joyce Grenfell for her West End revues and her one-woman shows.
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Richard Addinsell wrote for West End musical revues directed by Laurier Lister, including Airs on a Shoestring Addinsell's music is in the "English light music" style.
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Richard Addinsell regularly composed at the piano, providing other creative musicians such as Roy Douglas, Leonard Isaacs or Douglas Gamley with broad indications for their full orchestrations.
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Richard Addinsell retired from public life in the 1960s, gradually becoming estranged from his close friends.
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Richard Addinsell was, for many years, the companion of the fashion designer Victor Stiebel, who died in 1976.
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Richard Addinsell's cremation took place at Golders Green Crematorium on 18 November 1977.
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Richard Addinsell's ashes are buried there in a communal section of the crocus lawn.