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William Alwyn was born William Alwyn Smith in Northampton, England, the son of Ada Tyler (Tompkins) and William James Smith. [3] He showed an early interest in music and began to learn to play the piccolo. At the age of 15, he entered the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he studied flute, piano [4] and composition. [5]
Biography. William Alwyn was born in Northampton on the 7 th November 1905, and died in Southwold Suffolk on 11 th September 1985 just two months short of what would have been his eightieth birthday. He began his musical studies in 1920 aged just fifteen studying flute, piano, and composition at London’s Royal Academy of Music where in 1926 ...
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William Alwyn spent the last twenty-five years of his life at Lark Rise, Dunwich Road, Blythburgh, Suffolk, [9] and died in Southwold, Suffolk, in 1985. He was survived by his second wife, the composer Doreen Carwithen.
William Alwyn was born in Northampton on the 7th November 1905, and died in Southwold Suffolk on 11th September 1985.
Doreen Carwithen was born at 8 High Street, Haddenham, Buckinghamshire on 15 November 1922, in the house attached to her father's bakery and grocery. [1] As a child she had her first music lessons from her mother Dulcie, an aspiring concert pianist and pupil of Tobias Matthay who gave up her wider ambitions to become a music teacher after her ...
William was thrilled to discover after the war that his film scores were considered to be so important to public morale that he had been placed on a Nazi death list. Throughout the war as well as composing a string of morale boosting film scores William was busy playing flute at the National Gallery concerts, and also volunteered as an air-raid ...
British Composers. 1905 Births. 1985 Deaths. William Alwyn Smith (7 November 1905, Northampton, UK - 11 September 1985, Southwold, UK) was a British composer, conductor, flautist and music teacher.
