Herbert Murrill

Herbert Henry John Murrill ( born May 11, 1909 in London, † July 25, 1952 ) was an English musician who wrote, among other things, with a version of the Norman Richardson written by Rabindranath Tagore Jana Gana Mana, which in 1950 was declared the Indian National Anthem.

Murrill studied from 1925 to 1928 at the Royal Academy of Music, after which he was until 1931 Organ Scholarship at Worcester College, Oxford.

From 1933 until his death in 1952 he was professor of composition at the Royal Academy of Music. The British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ), he joined in 1936, where he was a 1942 program organizer, but then from 1942 to 1946 because of World War II in the Government Code and Cypher School, the secret operation of the British government for deciphering cryptographic encryptions of messages in Bletchley Park worked. In 1948, he returned to the BBC in 1950 and became Head of Music.

Murrill wrote several pieces of music. He married the cellist Vera Canning.