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Alfred Wall (composer)

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70:. While there he was mostly associated with chamber music, becoming Director of the Municipal Chamber Concerts. He formed the Alfred Wall Quartet and played in the Bainton-Fuchs-Wall Trio with Bainton (piano) and cellist Carl Fuchs. He performed as a soloist and led (sometimes conducting) the Newcastle-on-Tyne Philharmonic Orchestra. As a soloist Wall played in the first broadcast performance of the 92:
His two daughters, Rosina Wall and Dulcie Salder (who married the Truro-based musical director Jean Salder, previously front man for The Serenaders and later director of the Cornwall Symphony Orchestra), both remained musically active, mostly in Cornwall. They founded the Linden Players, which later
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He was also part of an important musical circle for introducing much new British music. Works by Holst, Bax, Vaughan Williams and many others were performed for the first time in the area, largely through the pioneering efforts of Bainton, his close friend William Gillies Whittaker, the violinist
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The nucleus of the orchestra at the Palace Hotel is formed by Jean Salder and his Serenaders, who are frequent broadcasters. Jean Salder showed talent at an early age, and became musical director of a cinema in Birmingham when he was only fourteen years
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Alfred Wall's compositions included the Quartet for Piano & Strings in C minor, composed in 1920 and first performed on 17 October 1922 at the Hall of the Art Workers' Guild, 6 Queen's Square, Bloomsbury in London by the McCullagh Quartet with
89:, Penrith. There he founded and led the Tirril Moor Quartette, which included his daughters Rosina (viola) and Dulcie (cello). He died at a nursing home in Carlisle following a relapse after an operation in October 1936. 51:. By the mid-1890s he had established himself as orchestral and chamber player in London and had begun composing. His String Quartet in G and the Violin Sonata in E were first performed in 1897 and 1898 at the 140:, a five movement suite for strings "in the old style". It was published in 1925 and received its first broadcast the same year with several repeat performances over the next seven years. 462: 791: 796: 129:
Quartet in 1925 at concerts in Dublin and Manchester. There is also a Trio in Bb (1921), a Violin Sonata in A (1922), and four songs to texts by
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took place at the BBC Proms, Queen's Hall, on 26 September 1922. It had been previously heard at the Bournemouth Easter Festival. His
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in London, where his father William Wall was "a professor of music". In 1886, aged 11, he won a scholarship to study violin at the
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with the Birmingham Philharmonic String Orchestra, to whom the piece is dedicated, and again (posthumously) in Banbury in 1937.
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This article is about the British composer and violinist. For the British trade unionist and political activist, see
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Jean Salder and his Serenaders: This combination of six players has had 26 broadcasts in its first year on the air.
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for viola and string orchestra was performed several times in 1934 and 1935 by soloist
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for string orchestra was published by Oxford University Press in 1927. The
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08 June 1963, Truro Cathedral, Cornwall Symphony Orchestra, Jean Salder
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Central Newcastle High School for Girls Magazine, December 1936
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Quartet for piano and strings in C minor (Carnegie Award, 1920)
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The Life and Musical Achievements of William Gillies Whittaker
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From the 1900s to the 1920s he was professor of violin at the
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Scott, Stuart. 'Arthur Catterall - The Manchester Years' at
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It was published as part of the 347:"Edgar Bainton Musical and spiritual Traveller" 190:Violin Concerto (Newcastle Philharmonic, 1920) 317:Newcastle's Musical Heritage, an Introduction 199:Trio in Bb for violin, cello and piano (1921) 8: 62:Conservatoire where he worked closely with 700:, Vol. 66, No. 993 (Nov. 1, 1925), p. 996 292:British Chamber Music Concerts (1896-97) 754:, Vol. 78, No. 1127 (Jan., 1937), p. 71 433: 431: 272: 196:Sonata in A for violin and piano (1921) 43:Wall was born at 1 St Paul's Crescent, 510: 499: 423:A Dictionary of 20th Century Composers 411:, Issue 320, 15 November, 1929, p. 37 256:for viola and string orchestra (1934) 7: 792:Alumni of the Royal College of Music 375: 373: 371: 112:Carnegie Collection of British Music 714:, Issue 115, 4 December 1925, p. 26 474:Camm, F.J., ed. 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Alfred M. Wall
Newcastle
Camden
Royal College of Music
Queen's Hall
Newcastle
Edgar Bainton
William Gillies Whittaker
Delius
North of England Musical Tournament
Tirril Moor
Newton Abbot
Joseph Holbrooke
Carnegie Collection of British Music
Catterall
Israel Zangwill
BBC Dance Orchestra
Lena Wood
British Chamber Music Concerts (1896-97)
Pegg, Joseph W. Newcastle's Musical Heritage, an Introduction (2003)
Borthwick, Mary. The Life and Musical Achievements of William Gillies Whittaker, Durham University Thesis (2007)
"Edgar Bainton Musical and spiritual Traveller"



Radio Times, Issue 603, 19 April 1935, p. 55
Radio Times, Issue 83, 24 April, 1925, p. 9
Radio Times, Issue 320, 15 November, 1929, p. 37

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