Herbert Murrill

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Herbert Henry John Murrill (11 May 1909 – 25 July 1952) was an English musician, composer, and organist. Biography: Herbert Henry John (later just Herbert) Murrill was born in London, England, the eldest of three children. He lived with his family in South London, where his father Walter was a cork merchant. As a young man, he had a group of musical friends encouraged and supported him, he was a chorister and participated in The London Music Festival, and was a scholarship student at Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School in Hatcham. He was awarded a scholarship to the Guildhall School of Music, but in 1925 went instead to the Royal Academy of Music, where he studied with York Bowen, Stanley Marchant and Alan Bush, where he stayed until 1928. While there he won medals for piano, organ, harmony and aural training. His first works date from this era, and Rhapsody for 'cello and piano and the ballet Picnic from 1927. Ralph Vaughan Williams heard the ballet's performance at the Crouch Festival and liked the work; he subsequently became a friend of Murrill's. He then became an organ scholar at Worcester College, Oxford, from 1928 to 1931. In 1933 he married the concert pianist Alice Margaret Good. Murrill's second wife was the cellist Vera Canning. He was for a time in the 1930s organist of Christ Church, Lancaster Gate, London and St Thomas's Church, Regent Street, London. From 1933 until his death, he was Professor of Composition in the Royal Academy of Music. He was for a time i

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