阿诺德, 马尔科姆爵士(亨利).docVIP

Arnold, Sir Malcolm (Henry) 阿诺德，马尔科姆爵士（亨利） (b Northampton, 21 Oct 1921). English composer. He was descended on his mother’s side from William Hawes. Arnold’s musical gifts were soon apparent, and he began to receive private composition lessons. At the age of 16 he won a scholarship to the RCM, where he studied trumpet with Ernest Hall and composition briefly with Patrick Hadley, then with Gordon Jacob. The decimation of professional orchestras by the demands of World War II meant that Arnold regularly appeared in their ranks even before graduating, and he was acknowledged as a trumpeter of the first order. He played in the LPO (1941–2) and, after two unhappy years of war service (1944–5), which ended when he deliberately shot himself in the foot, and one season with the BBC SO, he returned to the LPO in 1946. However, the award of the Mendelssohn Scholarship (1948) changed his life and gave him the confidence to pursue a full-time composing career. For 20 years he maintained a double life of prodigious energy, writing up to six film scores a year as well as a full and varied list of concert works, from symphonies and concertos to highly idiomatic music for brass and woodwind, pieces for amateurs and children and for the famous Hoffnung humorous concerts. Eventually the strain told and he abandoned film; by this stage, though, he had already experienced recurrent bouts of illness. A further crisis in the early 1980s saw him in hospital for a long period, and after a noticeable decline in his powers he eventually abandoned composition altogether, soon after completing his last symphony. His achievements were recognized by the award of numerous honours, culminating in a knighthood (1993). 1921年10月21日生于北安普顿，英国作曲家。马尔科姆从母亲那里继承了威廉姆 豪威的血脉，早早地就展现出了音乐天赋，很小就开始了上私人作曲课。16岁那年，他获得了奖学金前往皇家音乐学院，跟随厄内斯特.豪尔学习小号，并跟随帕德里克 哈德雷而后转投戈登 亚伯门下学习作曲。二战导致了专业乐团团员入伍阵亡，这就意味着阿诺德在毕业之前就开始参加常规演出。他成了出名的首席小号手。他先是参加了伦敦交响乐团（1941-1942），之后入伍，在那里他用故意向自己的脚开枪的方式结束了这两年（1944-1945）不如意的军队生活，加入了BBC交响乐团，在那里呆了一季之后，1946年，