Addinsell, Richard (Stewart)

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Addinsell, Richard (Stewart)

Addinsell, Richard (Stewart), English composer; b. London, Jan. 13, 1904; d. there, Nov. 14, 1977. He studied law at Hertford Coll., Oxford, and music at the Royal Coll. of Music in London, in Berlin, and in Vienna. He wrote various scores for the theater, films, and radio; among his best film scores were Fire Over England (1937), Goodbye Mr. Chips (1939), Dangerous Moonlight (1941; contains a movement for piano and orch. that became immensely popular as the Warsaw Concerto), Blithe Spirit (1945), and A Tale of Two Cities (1958).

—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire