Hubert Clifford
Hubert Clifford ( born May 31, 1904 in Bairnsdale, Victoria as Hubert John Clifford, † September 4, 1959 in Singapore ) was an Australian-born British composer and conductor. He made some significant musical works for the concert hall and the British cinema of the 1950s. Among these compositions for films like A child witnessed duel at the wheel, one came through, or with the head through the wall.
Life and work
Hubert John Clifford was an Australian born British composer and conductor.
Born in Bairnsdale in rural Victoria Clifford, was educated in Melbourne High School and the University of Melbourne in chemistry, before he emigrated to England in 1930 and there studied music at the Royal College of Music in London. Between 1935 and 1943, thus resulting in a range of classical concert works.
From 1941 to 1944 he was Music Supervisor Empire for the British Broadcasting Corporation, followed by a post as musical advisor of the BBC Eastern Service. Since 1944 he was a professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London. After the war he became musical director of the Alexander Korda Film Productions. In 1946 he began his work there, but resigned in 1950 in order to have more time for his own creative work, from his post back. He then worked as a high school teacher, examiner and adjudicator.
Since 1946, Hubert Clifford also wrote film music. First, for the two short documentaries General Election of Ronald H. Riley and Bridge of Time 1950. Was directed by Geoffrey Boothby and David Eady. His first composition for a feature film he wrote in 1951 for the crime film The Man in Black by Jeffrey Dell. In 1952 the film drama One child witnessed by director Charles Crichton with Dirk Bogarde and Jon Whiteley in the lead roles. It was followed by two film scores for crime films for director Guy Green with The chase began in the harbor in 1954 and in the claws of the Gangster 1956.
A year later, 1957, he composed the music for Cy Endfields psycho-drama duel at the wheel with Stanley Baker, Herbert Lom and Patrick McGoohan. Subsequently, two more compositions for films were made with the German actor Hardy Kruger, who was very popular at that time in England. In 1957 with the war drama One came through and the film comedy with his head through the wall in 1958.
Hubert Clifford died on September 4, 1959 55 -year-old during an inspection visit to the Royal College of Music in Singapore.
- The School Orchestra: A Comprehensive Manual for Conductors, by Hubert Clifford, Boosey & Hawkes, Limited, London, 1939, 125 pages ( for school conductors )