Herbert Murrill

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Memorabilia by Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander and Herbert Murrill, on display in Bletchley Park.

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

Life

Murrill studied from 1925 to 1928 at the Royal Academy of Music , after which he was an organ scholar at Worcester College at Oxford University until 1931 .

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

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

literature

  • In: Alfred Baumgartner: Propylaea world of music - The composers - A lexicon in five volumes . Propylaen Verlag, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-549-07830-7 , pp. 133, volume 4 .

Web links

Individual references and sources

  1. ↑ Herbert Henry John Murrill bbc.co.uk, accessed October 1, 2012
  2. ↑ Sheet music at the Indian Embassy in Washington, DC
  3. ↑ Report by Ian Mayo-Smith on the Bletchley Park website
personal data
SURNAME Murrill, Herbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Murrill, Herbert Henry John (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English musician
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH July 25, 1952
Place of death London