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Addinsell, Richard

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Classical Composers Database entry with short biography and comments on noted works plus links.
http://utopia.knoware.nl/~jsmeets/cgi-bin/ccd.cgi?comp=addinsel

Biography, lists of works, discography, and performances. From ChesterNovello.com.
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Addinsell, Richard at ChesterNovello.com  He is best remembered now as a composer for British cinema, his career in that medium beginning in 1936 and achieving early and widespread recognition with his score for the Oscar-winning Goodbye, Mr Chips in 1939. He went on to...
http://www.chesternovello.com/composer/11/main.html

Biography and selected filmography from Hollywood.com.
http://www.hollywood.com/celebs/detail/celeb/186044

Find A Grave entry with link to others at the Golders Green Crematorium in London.
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Find A Grave Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials  He is known chiefly for his movie music. Addinsell's Warsaw Concerto for piano and orchestra, written for the film Dangerous Moonlight 1941 has enjoyed independent life as a concert piece. As so often happens with composers and their most popular...
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=8682

Focus on his British film composing from the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music entry at WQXR radio.
http://www.wqxr.com/cgi-bin/iowa...la/learning/grove.html?record=75

Filmography at IMDb with forty movie titles listed.
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Richard Addinsell  After finishing his show more) IMDbPro Professional Details Composer filmography (1980s 1960s 1950s 1940s 1930s) Alice in Wonderland (1983 TV) The Sea Wolves: The Last Charge of the Calcutta Light Horse (1980 from 34;Warsaw Concerto" uncredited aka The Sea Wolves...
http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0005941/

Brief biographical sketch and Naxos discography.
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Composer  Britain as composer of the Warsaw Concerto for the film Dangerous Moonlight and as accompanist to Joyce Grenfell, Richard Addinsell studied music in Berlin and Vienna and later enjoyed a career as a composer chiefly for the theatre and the...
http://www.naxos.com/composer/bt...sp?fullname=Addinsell,%20Richard

Karadar entry with brief biographical sketch.
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- Classical Music Dictionary Free MP3  English composer chiefly remembered for his Warsaw Concerto composed for the film Dangerous Moonlight (1941) and as accompanist to Joyce Grenfell. Addinsell studied music in Oxford, Berlin and Vienna. Later he enjoyed a career as a composer of light music...
http://www.karadar.it/Dictionary/addinsell.html