Adrian Cruft

Adrian Francis Cruft (born February 10, 1921 in Mitcham , Surrey , † February 20, 1987 in London ) was a British composer and music teacher.

He grew up musically at Westminster Abbey Choir School and later at Westminster School . He studied composition with Gordon Jacob and conducting with William Henry Reed and Reginald Goodall and double bass at the Royal College of Music in London from 1938 to 1940, then interrupted by the Second World War and from 1946 to 1947 with Edmund Rubbra he continued his Studies continued.

From 1947 to 1969 he played in all known orchestras in London . From 1962 he was Professor of Music Theory and Composition at the Royal College of Music and from 1972 to 1975 he lectured instrumentation at the Guildhall School of Music . He was a long-time member of the Executive Committee of the Composers' Guild and was a co-founder of The British Music Information Center .

Cruft's oeuvre is very broad.

Works

Works for orchestra

• 1955 Concertino for clarinet & strings opus 21
• Concertante opus 25 for flute, oboe, timpani ad lib. and strings
• Three bagatelles opus 50
• Divertissement opus 28
• Divertimento for string orchestra opus 43
• Elegy for horn and strings opus 52
• Meditation on the Passion Chorale opus 72a
• Prospero's island Overture opus 39
• Traditional Hornpipe Suite
  1. Newcastle and Navvie
  2. Irish ''
  3. Del Caro's
  4. Oak Hill
  5. Fisher's
  6. Billy Bones

Works for wind orchestra (including brass bands)

• 1962 Tambourlaine Overture opus 38a
• 1971 Stilstone Suite opus 62a
• 1979 Dance Movement
• 1979 Memorial
• 1982 The Duke of Cambridge Suite opus 88
• Actaeon Overture opus 9a
• Concertino for clarinet and wind orchestra opus 21a
• Deux Chansons sans paroles
• Diptych opus 69a for brass band
• Duke of Cambridge Suite
• Essay on a Phrase opus 85 for brass band
• Little Prelude and Dance opus 68a for trombone and wind orchestra
• Little Prelude and March opus 60a for brass band
• Little Prelude and Scherzo opus 65a for brass band
• Meditation on the Passion Chorale opus 72c for brass trio and wind orchestra
• Michaelmas Music opus 40b for brass band
• Oxford suite opus 36a
• Song Prelude and Passacaglia opus 87 for brass band
• The Island Revisited Fantasy Overture opus 39a
• Threnody and Toccata opus 86 for brass band
• Two songs without words

Cantatas and sacred music

• An hymne of heavenly love cantata opus 53, for baritone, two-part boys' choir, mixed choir, organ, harp, percussion and string orchestra
• All that began with God Motette opus 16, for choir (SATB) and string orchestra
• Alma redemptoris mater cantata opus 54, for contralto, baritone, choir (SATB), flute, oboe, violin, violoncello and organ
• A Bemerton cantata opus 59 for mezzo-soprano, choir, organ, string orchestra, organ and percussion
• Benedictus opus 45
• Lutheran Mass opus 64 for two unequal choirs (SATB)
  1. Kyrie
  2. Gloria
• Magnificat and Nunc dimittis: Schola Decaniensis opus 33
• Magnificat and Nunc dimittis: Collegium Regale opus 46
• Mass for St. Michael opus 40 - A short service of Holy Communion -
• Medieval prayers opus 82
• Te Deum laudamus opus 35
• Te Deum laudamus opus 44
• Two psalms of praise opus 48

Chamber music

• Carillon Suite opus 61 for piano solo
• Chalumeau Suite opus 81 for clarinet in Bb and piano
• Homage to Johann Sebastian Bach for violoncello solo
• Impromptu for clarinet or viola and piano opus 22
• Organ Suite opus 69

literature

• Don Michael Randel: The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music . Harvard University Press, 1996, ISBN 0674372999 , ISBN 9780674372993