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Roger Fiske (11 September 1910 – 22 July 1987) was a musicologist, broadcaster and author who played an important part in establishing music for schools at the
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during and after World War II.
Fiske was born in
Surbiton
Surbiton is a suburban neighbourhood in South West London, within the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames (RBK). It is next to the River Thames, southwest of Charing Cross. Surbiton was in the historic county of Surrey and since 1965 it has ...
. He studied English at
Wadham College, Oxford
Wadham College () is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. It is located in the centre of Oxford, at the intersection of Broad Street and Parks Road.
Wadham College was founded in 1610 by Dorothy W ...
, graduating in 1932 and went on to study composition with
Herbert Howells
Herbert Norman Howells (17 October 1892 – 23 February 1983) was an English composer, organist, and teacher, most famous for his large output of Anglican church music.
Life
Background and early education
Howells was born in Lydney, Gloucest ...
at the
Royal College of Music
The Royal College of Music is a music school, conservatoire established by royal charter in 1882, located in South Kensington, London, UK. It offers training from the Undergraduate education, undergraduate to the Doctorate, doctoral level in a ...
, returning to Oxford for his DMus in 1937.
[Obituary, ''The Times'', 28 July 1987]
Joining the BBC in 1939 Fiske organized educational music broadcasts for the forces and for schools. In 1950 the closing music of ''
Listen with Mother
''Listen with Mother'' was a BBC radio programme for children which ran between 16 January 1950 to 10 September 1982. It was originally produced by Freda Lingstrom and was presented over the years by Daphne Oxenford, Julia Lang, Eileen Browne, ...
'' (the Berceuse from
Fauré's ''Dolly Suite'' for piano four hands, which became synonymous with the programme) was performed and recorded by Fiske with
Eileen Browne. Fiske stayed on at the BBC until 1959, producing a variety of educational programmes and talks on music for the
Third Programme
The BBC Third Programme was a national radio station produced and broadcast from 1946 until 1967, when it was replaced by BBC Radio 3, Radio 3. It first went on the air on 29 September 1946 and quickly became one of the leading cultural and in ...
.
From 1968 until 1975 he was editor-in-chief of the
Eulenburg miniature score series, taking over from
Walter Bergmann. His most ambitious and well-received book was ''English Theatre Music in the Eighteenth Century'', written in 1973.
[ ''Chamber Music'' (1969), was written to accompany a BBC radio series produced by Eileen Browne.
During his lifetime Fiske was very modest about his compositional activity. His widow Elizabeth revealed that ]Frederick Thurston
Frederick John Thurston (21 September 1901 – 12 December 1953) was an English clarinettist.
Career
From the age of 7 he was taught by his father and he won an open scholarship to the Royal College of Music, becoming a pupil of Charles Drap ...
played his 1941 Clarinet Sonata at a private performance. There is a modern recording of the Sonata, and of the later Clarinet Sonatina (1951). A collection of his unpublished manuscripts (mostly piano solo, chamber music and songs) is held at the Bodleian Library.
Roger Fiske married Elizabeth Sadler in 1939, and there were five children - Catherine, Alison, Veronica, John and Sarah.[ ]Alison Fiske
Alison Mary Fiske (2 August 1943 – 26 July 2020) was an English actress, who won Actress of the Year in a New Play at the 1977 Laurence Olivier Awards for playing Fish in ''Dusa, Fish, Stats and Vi''. She was also nominated in the 1979 Lauren ...
(1943–2020) became a successful actress.
Books
* ''Beethoven’s Last Quartets'' (1940)
* ''Listening to Music'' (1952)
* ''The Oxford School Music Books Teacher's Manual'' series (from 1954)
* ''Ballet Music'' (1958)
* ''Tunes for Children'' (1959, printed ensemble arrangements and HMV records)
* ''Score Reading'' series (1958–65)
**1) ''Orchestration'' 2) ''Musical Form'' 3) ''Concertos'' 4) ''Oratorios''
* ''Chamber Music'' (1969)
* ''Beethoven’s Concertos and Overtures'' (1970, BBC Music Guide)
* ''English Theatre Music in the Eighteenth Century'' (1973, 2nd edition 1986)
* (ed.) Michael Kelly ''Reminiscences'' (1975)
* ''Beethoven's Missa Solemnis'' (1979, Masterworks of Choral Music Series)
* ''Scotland in Music'' (1983)
Compositions
* Piano Trio (1935)
* Piano Sonata (1937)
* String Quartet ''Midsummer Hill'' (1938) (described on the manuscript score as String Quartet No 4)
* Clarinet Sonata (1941)
* Clarinet Sonatina (1951)
References
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1910 births
1987 deaths
20th-century classical composers
Alumni of the Royal College of Music
Alumni of Wadham College, Oxford
BBC Radio 3
BBC radio producers