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Alan Frank

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Frank kept up his interest in the clarinet. The Suite for Two Clarinets (1934) is his only composition to have maintained its place in the teaching repertoire. Later in life, in collaboration with his teacher Jack Thurston he wrote
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During the war Frank served as an intelligence officer for the RAF and was posted to Ceylon. After the war he returned to OUP as music editor (1947), becoming head of the Music Department in 1954 (succeeding
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Frank grew up in the Brixton area of London. His mother Fanny played the violin and had been taught by
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with violinist and leader of the London Symphony Orchestra George Stratton (1935, 2nd. ed. 1951), and
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Music Department between 1954 and 1975. He was married to the composer
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Music in Their Time: The Memoirs and Letters of Dora and Hubert Foss
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for clarinet and piano, used as examination material for the
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Lloyd, Stephen, Sparkes, Diana, Sparkes, Brian (editors):
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History of Oxford University Press, Vol 3 (1896–1970)
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Oxford University Press
Phyllis Tate
Joseph Joachim
Dulwich College
Frederick Thurston
Hubert Foss
Norman Peterkin
Conduit Street
Ralph Vaughan Williams
William Walton
Alan Rawsthorne
Alun Hoddinott
Thea King
Schumann
Mendelssohn
Associated Board of Music
Gardner, John. Obituary, The Independent, 29 June, 1994
Alan Frank as an apprentice at the OUP
Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music


History of Oxford University Press, Vol 3 (1896–1970)
Biography on the Phyllis Tate website
Music in Their Time: The Memoirs and Letters of Dora and Hubert Foss
The Friends of Alan Rawsthorne
Paul Harris - clarinet teacher
The Clarinet: A Comprehensive Method (OUP, 1966)
ABRSM: Mendelssohn for the Clarinet
ABRSM: Schumann for the Clarinet
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