Leonard Salzedo

Leonard Salzedo (September 24, 1921–May 6, 2000) was an English composer and conductor of Spanish-Jewish descent.

He studied composition under Herbert Howells and violin under Isolde Menges at the Royal College of Music in London, before becoming a professional composer in 1944. He worked closely with the Ballet Rambert, for whom his first ballet, "The Fugitive", was commissioned. He was Rambert's Musical Director from 1967 to 1972. He then conducted the Scottish Ballet from 1972-74 and London City Ballet from 1982-86.

He wrote 18 film scores, perhaps the most appraised of which was for Hammer's "The Revenge of Frankenstein" in 1959.

The fanfare which forms the first six bars of Salzedo's "Divertimiento for Three Trumpets and Three Trombones" (1959), was used as the theme tune for the BBC's Open University's educational programmes, from the 1970s to the 1990s. Another of his tunes, "Guadalajara", was used by the BBC to accompany their "pie chart" schools' presentation during the 1960s.

ources

*Larson, Randall D. "Music from the House of Hammer: Music in the Hammer Horror Films, 1950-1980". Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 1996.

External links

* [http://www.impulse-music.co.uk/salzedo.htm Leonard Salzedo biography by his daughter, Caroline Salzedo]
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0759546/ Leonard Salzedo] at the Internet Movie Database
* [http://www.sub-tv.co.uk/bbcschools.asp Details of BBC Schools' presentation at sub-tv]