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Robert Joseph Farnon CM (24 July 1917 – 23 April 2005) was a Canadian-born composer, conductor, musical arranger and trumpet player. As well as being a composer of original works (often in the light music genre), he was commissioned by film and television producers for theme and incidental music.
Feb 20, 2007 · Composer, arranger, conductor, trumpeter, b Toronto 24 Jul 1917, d Guernsey, UK 23 April 2005. Farnon began by learning violin; he studied piano with his mother at seven and with Jack Gray at nine. In 1930 he began playing drums in the dance band of his brother Brian; he also studied percussion with Duncan Snider.
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Jun 11, 2008 · Robert Joseph Farnon, composer, arranger, conductor (b at Toronto 24 July 1917). He is considered one of the most influential film composers of his generation in Europe and North America. Farnon became trumpeter in several 1930s Toronto dance bands and in the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission's orchestras of Percy FAITH and Geoffrey ...
May 1, 2005. Robert Farnon, a composer and arranger who was a leading figure in the once-popular genre of light orchestral music, died on April 23 on Guernsey, in the British Channel Islands....
Apr 25, 2005 · Mon 25 Apr 2005 19.02 EDT. The Canadian-born composer, arranger and conductor Robert Farnon, who has died aged 87 after a career spanning 70 years, was nicknamed "the guv'nor" by Frank Sinatra in...
Mar 11, 2017 · Biography. 11 Mar2017. Robert Farnon: a legend of light music. Written by Super User. Posted in Robert Farnon biography. User Rating: 5 / 5. Please Rate. For most of the second half of the 20 th century, Canadian-born Robert Farnon was generally regarded as the greatest living composer of Light Orchestral music in the world.
Apr 25, 2005 · Canadian composer Robert Farnon, best known as one of the greatest composers of light orchestral music during the post-Second World War era, has died. According to the Robert Farnon Society...