Anthony Hedges (5 March 1931 – 19 June 2019)

An English composer whose output covered most musical genres. His orchestral music included two symphonies, a Sinfonia Concertante, concertinos for flute, horn, trumpet, bassoon, Variations on a theme of Rameau, together with a substantial number of light music compositions. Works for chorus and orchestra include Bridge for the Living, (for which Philip Larkin wrote the text), The Temple of Solomon (a Huddersfield Choral Society commission), The Lamp of Liberty, (commissioned by Hull Philharmonic Orchestra for the Wilberforce bicentennary), I Sing the Birth (Canticles for Christmas) together with a number of large-scale works for massed junior choirs and orchestra which have been widely performed. Hedges' chamber-music output was extensive, from solo to ensemble works and his vocal compositions were equally numerous and varied. He also published a considerable amount of educational music. Often regarded primarily as a light-music composer due to the large number of recordings of his light orchestral music, such works in fact represented only a small portion of his overall output.

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