Malcolm Arnold

United Kingdom
October 21, 1921 – September 23, 2006

Sir Malcolm Henry Arnold, CBE (21 October 1921 – 23 September 2006) was an English composer. His output of works features music in many genres, including a cycle of nine symphonies, numerous concertos, concert works, chamber music, choral music and music for brass band and wind band. He wrote extensively for the theatre, with five ballets specially commissioned by the Royal Ballet, as well as two operas and a musical. He also produced scores for more than a hundred films, among these The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), for which he won an Oscar.

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Au cours des 14 derniers jours:

9 musiques
18 stations
7 pays

Top chansons des Malcolm Arnold

1	Solitaire: Polka
2	Four Scottish Dances, Op. 59: III. Allegretto
3	Four Scottish Dances, Op. 59: II. Vivace
4	Overture
5	English Dances Set I Op. 27: 3. Mesto
6	Most na rzece Kwai
7	River Kwai March
8	Colonel Bogey March
9	Guitar Concerto, Op. 67: 1. Allegro

Citations de Malcolm Arnold

Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion.