Alan Langford was the pen name of Alan Owen (28 February 1928 – 9 February 2011) a British radio producer and composer of light music.Philip Lane Alan Langford biography ''Naxos Music'', accessed 16 November 2010
Born in London, he studied at the
Guildhall School of Music and Drama
The Guildhall School of Music and Drama is a conservatoire and drama school located in the City of London, United Kingdom. Established in 1880, the school offers undergraduate and postgraduate training in all aspects of classical music and jazz ...
with
Benjamin Frankel
Benjamin Frankel (31 January 190612 February 1973) was a British composer. His best known pieces include a cycle of five string quartets, eight symphonies, and concertos for violin and viola. He was also notable for writing over 100 film scores ...
.Philip Lane Vintage TV and Radio Classics CD note For many years he was a BBC music producer for programmes such as ''Matinée Musicale'' and '' Friday Night is Music Night'', and thus used his pseudonym to disguise his sideline in composition. He is no relation of fellow light composer
Gordon Langford
Gordon Langford (11 May 1930 – 18 April 2017) was an English composer, arranger and performer.Obituary in ''The Times'', May 01, 2017
He is known for works such as ''Diversion and Interludes'', the ''Three Amusements'', ''Little French Suite'', ''Riding High'', ''Petite Promenade'' (a staple of the BBC Test Card transmission music repertoire), the ''Waltz for String Orchestra'', the ''Concertante for Harmonica and Strings'' (written in 1981 for Tommy Reilly), the ''Two Worlds Overture'' and the ''Pastoral Scherzetto''.Philip Scowcroft Garland 101 accessed 16 November 2010 Many of his pieces were written for the recorded
music libraries
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, and according to Philip Lane, his compositions were frequently used for the crime serials of Edgar Lustgarten in the 1950s and 1960s.