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Alexander "Alick" Morvaren Maclean (20 July 1872 – 18 May 1936) was an
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composer and conductor. Maclean's father Charles Maclean was Director of Music at
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. The younger Maclean was born there and later went to the school. He became interested in opera and wrote an 'English'
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work called ''Petruccio''. This was presented in a double-bill with ''
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'' at the Royal Opera in London, on 29 June 1895. As an opera composer he enjoyed more success in Germany than in England, and two of his later works were staged in
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. The
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for all his works was Sheridan Ross. From 1912 to 1935 he conducted the Spa Orchestra at
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. He died in London in 1936.


Stage works

* ''Crichton'' (unperformed, c. 1892) * ''Quentin Durward'' (London, 1894) * ''Petruccio'' (London, 1895) * ''Die Liebegeige'' (Mainz, 1906) * ''Maître Seiler'' (London, 1909) * ''Die Waldidylle'' (Mainz, 1913)


Recordings

Maclean recorded for
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and Columbia, especially with the New Queen’s Hall Light Orchestra.


References

*Banfield, Stephen (1992), 'Maclean, Alick' in ''The New Grove Dictionary of Opera'', ed. Stanley Sadie (London)


External links


British Pathé newsreel of Maclean at Scarborough in 1932, accessed 29 October 2019
{{DEFAULTSORT:Maclean, Alick English opera composers Male opera composers English classical composers 1872 births 1936 deaths English male classical composers