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John Jeffrey Gough (23 June 1903 7 November 1951) was an Australian-born
composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Defi ...
,
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and
radio play Radio drama (or audio drama, audio play, radio play, radio theatre, or audio theatre) is a dramatized, purely acoustic performance. With no visual component, radio drama depends on dialogue, music and sound effects to help the listener imagine t ...
wright who relocated to the United Kingdom and worked for the
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. Gough was the only son of John T. Gough and his wife, Hilda May Atkins Gough, of
Launceston, Tasmania Launceston () or () is a city in the north of Tasmania, Australia, at the confluence of the North Esk and South Esk rivers where they become the Tamar River (kanamaluka). As of 2021, Launceston has a population of 87,645. Material was copied ...
. He was educated at Charles St School and Launceston High School. He was a talented swimmer, diver and oarsman, and taught himself to play the cello. He worked for two years as a cadet reporter for ''The Daily Telegraph'', Launceston. At the age of 19, he won a three-year scholarship to the
Melbourne Conservatorium of Music The Melbourne Conservatorium of Music is the music school at the University of Melbourne and part of the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music. It is located near the Melbourne City Centre on the Southbank campus of the University of Melbourne. Degree ...
. He was awarded the Bronze Medal of the Trinity Society of Music. He was solo cellist with and deputy conductor of the orchestra of the
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. He toured with theatrical orchestras, playing for some time in Sydney. He left Australia to continue his studies in Paris, where he supported himself by playing small parts in films made by Gaumont Studios. He won a scholarship for composition at the
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, where he studied under
Ralph Vaughan Williams Ralph Vaughan Williams, (; 12 October 1872– 26 August 1958) was an English composer. His works include operas, ballets, chamber music, secular and religious vocal pieces and orchestral compositions including nine symphonies, written over ...
. His income was meagre, and he suffered "privations that have often included starving". He joined the BBC in London as "tone and control officer", and was subsequently appointed musical director and later features producer. He relocated to Scotland; where he was known for wearing a kilt, and a beard, and using the leg of a hare as a cigarette holder. He seems to have returned to London no later than 1941: a photograph exists of Gough with his fellow-countryman the conductor and composer
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and the British conductor Sir Henry Wood inspecting the ruins of the
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, London soon after it had been destroyed by German bombing on 10 May 1941. During World War II and afterwards, he worked for the BBC Pacific Service, becoming BBC Pacific Programme Organiser. He died in 1951, and was survived by a wife and five children. He wrote several plays for radio, mostly in the 1930s and on historical topics, which were broadcast by the
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, Scotland. On 4 April 1929, his
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''The Wallaby Track'' was premiered at the
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Music Festival. On 5 July 1943, it was played at the
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in a
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concert broadcast by the BBC. It may have been that piece which was broadcast nine days later by the BBC-
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radio relay ''Calling Australia''. His other compositions included settings for voice and piano of the poem "Song of the Rain" by his fellow Australian
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and of the poem "Beauty's Beauty" by the 17th century English dramatist
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; ''Love Song for Strings in the Form of a Rondo'' (commented on favourably by
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in 1943); and ''Serenade for Small Orchestra'' (1931; recorded in 1999 by
Vernon Handley Vernon George "Tod" Handley (11 November 1930 – 10 September 2008) was a British conductor, known in particular for his support of British composers. He was born of a Welsh father and an Irish mother into a musical family in Enfield, Middles ...
and the
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, Chandos 9757).


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gough, John 1903 births 1951 deaths People from Launceston, Tasmania University of Melbourne alumni Alumni of the Royal College of Music BBC radio producers Australian radio producers Australian male dramatists and playwrights 20th-century Australian dramatists and playwrights Australian male classical composers 20th-century classical composers 20th-century Australian male musicians 20th-century Australian musicians