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Patrick Hadley
12+ albums
english
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An English composer and a conductor. Middle names are Arthur Sheldon. Patrick Sheldon Hadley was born on 5 March 1899 in Cambridge. Patrick attended St Ronan's Preparatory School at West Worthing, London and Winchester College. However the First World War interrupted his education. He enlisted in the army and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery. He managed to survive unscathed until the last weeks of the war, when he received an injury necessitating the below knee amputation of his right leg. This profoundly damaged his confidence and also caused him to perhaps drink more than was wise; he was in constant pain, for which alcohol provided some relief. After the war Patrick went up to Pembroke College, Cambridge, where by now his father was Master. He was fortunate to study with both Charles Wood and the English composer Cyril Rootham. Hadley was awarded B.Mus. in 1922, and an MA in 1925. He then went to the Royal College of Music in London. Here he came under the influence of Ralph Vaughan Williams for composition and Adrian Boult and Malcolm Sargent for conducting. He won the Sullivan prize for composition: at that time the sum of 5 shillings. In 1938 Hadley was elected to a Fellowship at Gonville and Caius College in Cambridge and appointed as a lecturer in the music faculty. Much of his time was spent in run of the mill administrative activities, but there was still time available for composition. Some of his greatest works were written du
top songs
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I Sing of a Maiden
1,5982One Morning in Spring
6263My Beloved Spake
3744Hadley: I Sing of a Maiden, for Two-Part Boys' Choir and Piano (Version with Organ):
3015I sing of a maiden - 1985 Remastered Version
2526Hadley: I Sing of a Maiden
2467Hadley: I Sing of a Maiden, for Two-Part Boys' Choir and Piano - Version with Organ
2468Hadley, P.: I Sing of a Maiden, for Two-Part Boys? Choir and Piano (Version with Organ)
1669Hadley: "I sing of a maiden"
10510I Sing of a Maiden: I sing of a maiden
95albums
Classic Christmas Carols
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Sainton / Hadley: Orchestral and Choral Works
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Carols With St. Paul's Cathedral Choir
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Hadley: The Hills - Delius: To Be Sung of a Summer Night on the Water
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Journey Into Light: Music for Advent, Christmas, Epiphany and Candlemas
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Carols Of The Nativity
I Juletid
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My Beloved's Voice: Sacred Songs of Love
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The Great British Carol Collection
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Carols from Trinity
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Vaughan Williams: The Garden of Proserpine & In the Fen Country - Hadley: Fen & Flood (Arr. R. Vaughan Williams)
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Albion's Vision