Malcolm Sargent

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Sir Harold Malcolm Watts Sargent (born April 29, 1895 in Ashford , † October 3, 1967 in London ) was an English conductor .

Sargent studied piano and organ and in 1911 became assistant to organist Haydn Keeton at Peterborough Cathedral . From 1914 to 1924 he was organist in Melton Mowbray . At the same time he studied musicology in Durham and from 1919 to 1921 piano with Benno Moiseiwitsch . His conducting career began when he conducted the Promenade Concerts at Queen's Hall in London in 1921 at the invitation of Sir Henry Wood .

From 1923 Sargent taught at the Royal College of Music , from 1927 to 1930 he worked with the Ballets Russes . From 1928 until his death he was conductor of the Royal Choral Society , and from 1929 to 1940 he was musical director of the Courtauld-Sargent Concerts .

After a break due to illness, he conducted several performances by the London Philharmonic Orchestra in the late 1930s . He then conducted the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester from 1939 to 1942 , the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra from 1942 to 1948 and the BBC Symphony Orchestra from 1950 to 1957 . From 1948 he was also the chief conductor of the legendary Proms .

Sargent's particular interest has always been contemporary English music. So he conducted u. a. the world premieres of Gustav Holst's At the Boar's Head (1925), Ralph Vaughan Williams ' Hugh the Drover (1924), Sir John in Love (1929), Riders to the Sea (1937) and Symphony No. 9 (1958) and William Waltons Belshazzar’s Feast (1931) and Troilus and Cressida (1954).

His arrangement of Rule, Britannia! which is regularly played at London's Last Night of the Proms .

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SURNAME Sargent, Malcolm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sargent, Sir Harold Malcolm Watts (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English conductor
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Ashford
DATE OF DEATH 3rd October 1967
Place of death London