Eric Ball (composer)

Eric Walter John Ball ( born October 31, 1903 in Kingswood near Bristol, † October 1, 1989 in Dorset) was an English composer and conductor.

He was the eldest of three sons in the family of Jack and Lily ball His mother was raised in a Baptist family and very involved in the Salvation Army, where she was captain when she married Jack Ball, also a member of the Salvation Army.

The children dream of Eric Ball was one day becoming organist in one of the great English cathedrals. Due to the roots of the whole family got Eric his first contact with music but by the Brass Band of the Salvation Army. At the same time he received private piano lessons. Later, he took private lessons with an organist of the Anglican Church, who instructed him in harmony and counterpoint puncture. He then got a job as an organist at Holy Trinity Church in Dartford.

In 1919 he took up a position in the central music instrument department of the Salvation Army in London. But very quickly he moved to the musical Editorial Department, where he could, among other well-known composers and arrangers ( Philip Catelinet, Bramwell Coles, Albert Jakeway and George Marshall, as well as Henry Hall ) who were there also worked to create. His first published composition was a march Hoist The Flag in 1922. Henceforth, he first composed mainly choral works and religious music.

In addition to that, he was the conductor of various Brass Bands of the Salvation Army in 1926 and built its own brass band, The Salvation Army Publishing & Supplies band. At the end of his work for the Salvation Army, he was conductor of the International Staff Band. Outside the Salvation Army, he was active as a conductor until after the Second World War. In 1946 he became conductor of the Brighouse & Rastrick Brass Band and won with this ensemble in 1946, the National Championships and two years later with the CWS Manchester Brass Band, the British Open Championships.

His teaching skills have been great, since all brass bands in which he worked, developed a significant level of improvement and some magazines even reported by the miracle of its conductor rod. Overall, the activity proved to be a fountain of youth for the overall development of the Brass Band system in the United Kingdom, so that the well-known conductor Roy Newsome the composer Eric Ball as a kind of Mozart of Brass Band Music ( The Mozart of the Brass Band Movement ) dubbed. He was a guest conductor of Brass Bands in Australia, Canada, the United States and New Zealand.

Works

Works for Brass Band

  • Composer
  • Composer ( brass bands )
  • Conductor
  • Born in 1903
  • Died in 1989
  • Man
  • Briton
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