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Hubert Leslie Woodgate (15 April 190018 May 1961) was an English choral conductor, composer, and writer of books on choral music. He was born in
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, and educated at
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and the
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. During the 1920s, he was organist at several London churches. In 1928, he joined the
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; in 1934, was appointed BBC Chorus Master, taking responsibility for the
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, the BBC's large amateur chorus, and the Wireless Chorus and Wireless Singers, made up of professionals. That same year, he conducted the world and broadcast premiere of '' A Boy Was Born'' by
Benjamin Britten Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976, aged 63) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British music, with a range of works including opera, other ...
. During the 1930s, he was Musical Director of the London and North Eastern Railway Musical Society: it comprised several amateur male-voice choirs which combined annually for a performance in London; he wrote music for them. He was director of the Kentucky Minstrels, a popular singing group on BBC radio during and immediately after the
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. In 1946, he conducted the Wireless Chorus at a Henry Wood Promenade Concert in
William Walton Sir William Turner Walton (29 March 19028 March 1983) was an English composer. During a sixty-year career, he wrote music in several classical genres and styles, from film scores to opera. His best-known works include ''Façade'', the cantat ...
's ''Where Does the Uttered Music Go?'' He was appointed OBE in 1959. He married Lena Mason in 1926; they had one son. He died in 1961, at the age of 61. Most of his compositions were choral works, but he sometimes wrote for instrumental and orchestral forces. His Op. 1, ''Hymn to the Virgin'' and ''The White Island'' for male soloist, male choir and orchestra, earned him a
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in 1923. He was an enthusiastic promoter of both amateur and professional singing: his ''Penguin Song Book'' of 1951 appears to have been the first musical score published by
Penguin Books Penguin Books is a British publishing house. It was co-founded in 1935 by Allen Lane with his brothers Richard and John, as a line of the publishers The Bodley Head, only becoming a separate company the following year.1900 births Musicians from London 1961 deaths Place of death missing People educated at Westminster School, London Alumni of the Royal College of Music English choral conductors British male conductors (music) English classical composers 20th-century English composers English male classical composers 20th-century British conductors (music) 20th-century British male musicians Officers of the Order of the British Empire {{UK-composer-stub