Sir David Valentine Willcocks, (30 December 1919 – 17 September 2015) was a British

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conductor,

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and music administrator. He was particularly well known for his association with the

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, which he directed from 1957 to 1974, making frequent broadcasts and recordings. Several of the descants and carol arrangements he wrote for the annual service of

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were published in the series of books ''

Carols for Choirs ''Carols for Choirs'' is a collection of choral scores, predominantly of Christmas carols and hymns, first published in 1961 by Oxford University Press. It was edited by Sir David Willcocks and Reginald Jacques, and is a widely used source of ...

'' which he edited along with

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and

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. He was also director of the

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in London. During the

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(1939–1945) he served as an

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in the

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, and was decorated with the

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for his actions on

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during the

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in July 1944. His elder son,

Jonathan Willcocks Jonathan Willcocks (born 9 January 1953) is an English composer and conductor. Willcocks was born in Worcester, the son of conductor and composer Sir David Willcocks. He was a chorister at King's College, Cambridge, and an Open Music Scholar a ...

, is also a composer.

Biography

Born in

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, Willcocks began his musical training as a chorister at

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from 1929 to 1934, following a recommendation by the then Master of the King's Music, Sir

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, to

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. From 1934 to 1938, he was a music scholar at

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, Bristol, where his teacher was Douglas Fox, his most important musical influence. He was appointed as

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King's College, Cambridge King's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Formally The King's College of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge, the college lies beside the River Cam and faces out onto King's Parade in the centre of the city ...

in 1939. There, he met David Briggs, a

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(bass). Willcocks and Briggs would later be colleagues at King's, from 1959 to 1974, as Organist and Master of the Choristers and as Headmaster of

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, the school attended by the choirboys of King's College.

Military service

With the outbreak of the

, he interrupted his studies in music to serve in the

. He was commissioned as a

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in the

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(DCLI) on 15 February 1941, and was awarded the

as a temporary

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for his actions during the

on the night of 10/11 July 1944, when he was serving with the 5th Battalion, DCLI as battalion

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officer. The battalion, part of the 214th Infantry Brigade of the

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, was ordered to hold

in Normandy, France, as part of

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. He carried out his duties outstandingly overnight, helping inflict severe casualties on the German forces by calling in artillery support to break up counter-attacks. The battalion suffered over 250 casualties during the night, including the

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and one of the

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s. This left Willcocks in command of the battalion headquarters, which by then was the furthest forward part of the battalion. He rallied the men, enabling the battalion to stand firm and reorganise. The award was

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on 21 December 1944.

Musical career

Willcocks returned to Cambridge in 1945 to complete his studies, and in 1947 was elected a Fellow of King's College and appointed Conductor of the

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. In the same year, he became the organist at

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and the conductor of the Salisbury Musical Society. He moved to

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in 1950 and remained until 1957, during which time he was organist of the cathedral, principal conductor of the

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in 1951, 1954, and 1957, and conductor of the

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. From 1956 to 1974 he was also conductor of the

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, whilst continuing as guest conductor for their carol concerts into the early 1990s. Composers with whom he collaborated included

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and Tippett. From 1957 to 1974 he held the post for which he is probably best known, Director of Music at

. He made numerous recordings with the college choir. (Among the most notable recordings was one of Thomas Tallis's ''

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'', made in 1965.) The choir toured extensively, giving concerts worldwide, as well as garnering further acclaim internationally through television and radio appearances. Under the baton of Willcocks,

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performed

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's ''

War Requiem The ''War Requiem'', Op. 66, is a large-scale setting of the Requiem composed by Benjamin Britten mostly in 1961 and completed in January 1962. The ''War Requiem'' was performed for the consecration of the new Coventry Cathedral, which was b ...

'' in 1963 in (Perugia) Milan, La Scala, and in Venice. The choir subsequently performed the work in Japan, Hong Kong, Portugal, and the Netherlands. In 1960, he also became the musical director of

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in London. He held these positions at Cambridge until the 1970s when he accepted the post of Director of the

. In the 1971

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, he was appointed a

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(CBE), and was created a

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in 1977 in the Queen's Silver Jubilee Honours. He held honorary degrees in England from the Universities of

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, and

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, and from the

in London; in the US from

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, St. Olaf College (Minnesota),

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and

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(New Jersey); and in Canada from the Universities of

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, and Victoria B.C. All in all, his honorary degrees numbered over fifty. He was also President of the

City of Bath Bach Choir Bath Bach Choir, formerly The City of Bath Bach Choir (CBBC), is based in Bath, Somerset, England, and is a registered charity. Founded in 1946 by Cuthbert Bates, who also became a founding father of the Bath Bach Festival in 1950, the choir's ...

and Exeter Festival Chorus. For the 1981 wedding of Prince Charles and Diana Spencer, Willcocks served as guest director of music and conducted the Bach Choir, who sang during the signing of the registers. The event was watched by an estimated global TV audience of 750 million. After stepping down from the Royal College, Willcocks resumed conducting and editing scores as his primary activities. A 1990 profile in ''

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'' noted that he had made nine visits to the United States in the previous year, including conducting Evensong at St. Thomas Church in

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and conducting the

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. In live performance, he regularly conducted Mozart's ''Requiem'' at the ''Mostly Mozart'' festival in New York. On 15 May 2010, a celebration of his contribution to music took place at the

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in London, where pieces selected by Willcocks were performed by singers who are part of

the Really Big Chorus The Really Big Chorus (TRBC) is Britain's largest choral society, made up of singers from hundreds of different choirs all over the UK as well as thousands of individuals. It was founded by Don Monro, an Electrical Engineering lecturer (and clarinet ...

. Special guests included choristers from King's College Choir, Cambridge, who performed three pieces. He died at home in Cambridge on the morning of 17 September 2015.

Recordings and broadcasts

Willcocks made recordings with the (London) Bach Choir, the

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, the

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, the Jacques Orchestra, the

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, and the

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as well as with the

, with whom he regularly conducted the

service on

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, broadcast by the BBC every year since 1931. With The Bach Choir, in particular he recorded works by Johann Sebastian Bach, especially his motets and, sung in English, his

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and a stately rendition of the

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, a piece he regularly conducted for broadcast Easter performances. He also served as general editor of the Church Music series of the

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. During his years at King's, an early and frequently reissued recording of the Allegri ''Miserere'' was made in March 1963 by the

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, conducted by David Willcocks, and featuring a 12-year old

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, later a distinguished conductor, as the treble soloist. In 1965, he made his famous recording, with the Choir of King's College, of Tallis's

. He is particularly known for his widely used choral arrangements of

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s, many of which were originally written or arranged for the Service of

at King's and/or the Bach Choir's Christmas concerts. They are published in the five ''

'' anthologies (1961–1987), edited by Willcocks with

(first volume) or

. The descant arrangements in particular are among the most famous and well-loved musical components. He was Music Director

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of King's College Choir, and an Honorary Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. Outside the world of classical music, Willcocks conducted his London Bach Choir for the studio recording of "

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" by the

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in 1968. A notable broadcast took place on

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on 21 September 2010 in a series called ''

Soul Music Soul music is a popular music genre that originated in the African American community throughout the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It has its roots in African-American gospel music and rhythm and blues. Soul music became po ...

'', when Willcocks profiled Fauré's ''Requiem''. The programme included his memories of the fighting at

. The profile also featured Christina, widow of

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. Willcocks questioned the morality of war.''Soul Music'' (Series 10), "Faure Requiem"

, 21 September 2010. Retrieved on 22 September 2010.

Honours

Commonwealth honours

; Commonwealth honours ;Military decorations

Scholastic

; Fellowships ;Honorary degrees

References

External links

*
Interview with Sir David Willcocks
22 January 1989 * Martin Cullingford
Conductor and organist Sir David Willcocks has died
Gramophone 17 September 2015
first part of an interview by Alan Macfarlane 11 December 2008 (video)

second part of an interview by Alan Macfarlane 15 December 2008 (video)
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