Henry Wood
Sir Henry Joseph Wood (born March 3, 1869 in London , † August 19, 1944 in Hitchin , Hertfordshire ) was a British conductor .
Life
Wood was a student at the Royal Academy of Music in London and became a professor there in 1923. In 1895 he founded the famous Promenade Concerts , Proms for short , which is traditionally linked to the Royal Albert Hall in London, but originally took place in the Queen's Hall . He was the first conductor of the concerts, and is still remembered annually today with his bust being wreathed with laurel on the occasion of the Last Night of the Proms .
Wood also composed and arranged music, sometimes under the pseudonym Paul Klenovsky. In 1911 he received the knight bachelor's knighthood for his services to music , and in 1921 the gold medal of the Royal Philharmonic Society .
Works
Web links
- Works by Henry Wood in the catalog of the German National Library
- Henry Wood sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
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| SURNAME | Wood, Henry |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wood, Henry Joseph (full name); Klenovsky, Paul (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 3, 1869 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 19, 1944 |
| Place of death | Hitchin , Hertfordshire |