Alan Ridout

Alan Ridout (born 9 December 1934 in London, † 19 March 1996 in Caen ) was an English composer and music teacher.

Life

Alan Ridout was born on 9 December in West Wickham in London, and studied briefly at the Guildhall School of Music before moving to the Royal College of Music in London and studied there for four years. There he was taught by Herbert Howells and Gordon Jacob. Later he was taught by Michael Tippett, Peter Racine Fricker and Henk Bading.

After graduating, he taught himself at the Royal College of Music, but also at the universities of London, Cambridge, Birmingham and King's School in Canterbury.

Alan Ridout wrote mainly church, orchestral and chamber music, but most of all for children.

He worked primarily with the Leicestershire Schools Symphony Orchestra ( LSSO ). His piece "Three Pictures of Picasso ," which was originally written for the National Youth Orchestra, led Alan Ridout in 1964 with the LSSO on, and so conducted his work with this one. Ridouts Second Symphony he conducted in 1965 also with the LSSO on and dedicated it to his former teacher, Sir Michael Tippett on the occasion of his 60th birthday. In 1967, Ridout, the dance drama " Funeral Games for a Greek Warrior " with the LSSO on and in that same year he also recorded his first record with the Pye Golden Guinea label.

Alan Ridout lived most of the time in Canterbury. He died in Caen, France.

Awards

1955 and 1957 he was awarded the Composition Prize of the Royal Philharmonic Society in London.

Works (selection)

Keyboard Instruments

  • Dance Bagatelles for piano (1959 )
  • Suite for clavichord or piano (1961 )
  • The Seven Last Words for organ (1965 )
  • Six Studies for organ (1981 )
  • Toccata for organ (1989 )
  • White Notes, Black notes, key notes for piano (1991 )

Brass

  • Sonata for trombone (1984 )
  • Eclogue for trombone and piano (1995 )
  • Autumn Story for tuba and piano (1995 )

Woodwind Instruments

  • Sonatina for clarinet and piano (1968 )
  • Pigs for four bassoons (1973 )
  • Tarka, the water walker for three flutes (1987 )
  • Snow Scenes for saxophone in E ♭ and piano (1993 )
  • Folies de Paris for contrabassoon and piano (op. posth )

String Instruments

  • Partita for cello solo ( 1959)
  • Bagatelles for cello and piano (1971 )
  • Cello Concerto No.. 3 " The Prisoner " for solo cello and 8 cellos (1995 )
  • Dance Preludes for double bass or cello and piano (1996 )
  • String Quartet No.. 1 to no. 6

Percussion instruments

  • Sonatina for timpani (1968 )

Orchestra

  • Three Pictures of Picasso
  • Symphony No.. 2 (1965)
  • Funeral Games for a Greek Warrior
  • Concertante Music ( 1967)
  • Concertino for tuba and strings (1979 )
  • Concerto for treble recorder, strings and percussion (1991 )

Choir

  • On Christ's Nativity for choir SATB ( 1955)
  • St. John Passion for tenor, bass, chorus and organ (1964 )
  • Canticle of Joy for countertenor and tenor solo, mixed choir and orchestra
  • The Beatitudes for female choir

Swell

  • Peter Hardwick: The organ music of Alan Ridout. In: The American Organist, March 1999.
  • Alan Ridout: A Composer's Life. Thames Publishing, London 1995, ISBN 0-905210-54-9.
  • Robert P. Scott Alan Ridout, the Complete Catalogue. Emerson Wind Publications, Ampleforth 1997, ISBN 0-9506209-5-5.
  • Composer
  • Composer of classical music ( 20th century)
  • Born in 1934
  • Died in 1996
  • Man
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