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1011697 - Portrait by John Hedgecoe - Sir Malcolm Arnold, composer, - Sir Malcolm Henry Arnold, KBE (born 21 October 1921, Northampton, UK) is an English composer. Arnold began his career as a professional trumpeter, but by the time he was thirty he was composing full-time, being bracketed with Britten and Walton as one of the most sought-after composers in Britain. His natural melodic gift has earned him a reputation as a composer of light music in works such as the sets of English, Scottish and Welsh Dances, or the scores to the St Trinian’s films and Hobson's Choice. Among modern British composers Arnold has been rather neglected even though he wrote some great film scores - Bridge on the River Kwai and Tunes of Glory - and more than sixty classical CDs of his music are available. He is a formidable man and one of those people who knows absolutely everybody - all the music and film world, prominent people in the art world, painters, sculptors, and so on. In conversation he is likely to go off at a tangent and you can't keep him on the straight and narrow. It probably befits a composer that he's a man you have to listen to, rather than talk to, but he is great fun to be with. ©2006 John Hedgecoe/TopFoto
©2006 John Hedgecoe/Topfoto
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