Richard Hall (16 September 1903 – 24 May 1982) was an English musician and composer who became professor of composition at the

Royal Manchester College of Music The Royal Manchester College of Music (RMCM) was a tertiary level conservatoire in Manchester, north-west England. It was founded in 1893 by the German-born conductor Sir Charles Hallé in 1893. In 1972, the Royal Manchester College of Music ...

, a position he held from 1938 until 1956, when he became director of music at

Dartington College of Arts Dartington College of Arts was a specialist arts college located at Dartington Hall in the south-west of England, offering courses at degree and postgraduate level together with an arts research programme. It existed for a period of almost 50 ...

. Hall become an ordained

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minister in 1926, and in 1967 he left Dartington to become a Unitarian minister. Hall's pupils at the Royal Manchester College of Music included

Ronald Stevenson Ronald James Stevenson (6 March 1928 – 28 March 2015) was a Scottish composer, pianist, and writer about music. Biography The son of a Scottish father and Welsh mother, Stevenson was born in Blackburn, Lancashire, in 1928. He studied at the ...

, Arthur Butterworth,

Peter Maxwell Davies Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (8 September 1934 – 14 March 2016) was an English composer and conductor, who in 2004 was made Master of the Queen's Music. As a student at both the University of Manchester and the Royal Manchester College of Music ...

Harrison Birtwistle Sir Harrison Birtwistle (15 July 1934 – 18 April 2022) was an English composer of contemporary classical music best known for his operas, often based on mythological subjects. Among his many compositions, his better known works include ''Th ...

Alexander Goehr Peter Alexander Goehr (; born 10 August 1932) is an English composer and academic. Goehr was born in Berlin in 1932, the son of the conductor and composer Walter Goehr, a pupil of Arnold Schoenberg. In his early twenties he emerged as a centra ...

, David Wilde and John Ogdon. His orchestral compositions include a Piano Concerto (1931), Violin Concerto (1939), Cello Concerto (1944) and four numbered Symphonies. He also wrote much chamber music (including many string quartets and sonatas) and solo piano music (including 19 numbered sonatas).

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1903 births 1982 deaths 20th-century English composers 20th-century classical musicians Alumni of the Royal Northern College of Music {{composer-stub