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Drakeford, Richard

LC control no.n 97866446
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Personal name headingDrakeford, Richard
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Variant(s)Drakeford, Richard Jeremy, 1936-2009
Associated countryGreat Britain England
Associated placeOxford (England) Harrow (London, England)
Birth date1936-11-05
Death date2009-11-12
Field of activityComposition (Music) Music Teaching
AffiliationWorcester College (University of Oxford) Harrow School
Profession or occupationComposers Music teachers
Special noteComposer.
Data contributed by the Dance Heritage Coalition for the New York Public Library Dance Collection.
Found in*MGZA Dancing times. Aug 1973, p 623.
Wikipedia, viewed 12 April 2018 (Richard Jeremy Drakeford (5 November 1936 - 12 November 2009) was a British composer of classical music. Drakeford was a composition pupil of Herbert Howells and Edmund Rubbra and studied at Worcester College, Oxford where he was the Organ Scholar. He was one of the founders, in 1961, of the Little Missenden [Music] Festival and acted as its Music Advisor until his death. He taught music at Harrow School between 1961 and 1985, serving as the school's Director of Music from 1976)
BL catalogue, viewed 12 April 2018 (access point: Drakeford, Richard Jeremy)