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Thomas Pitfield
12+ albums
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Thomas Baron Pitfield (5 April 1903 – 11 November 1999) was a British composer, poet, artist, engraver, calligrapher, craftsman, furniture builder and teacher. He was born in Bolton. Although he was essentially self taught as a composer, he studied piano, cello and harmony at the Royal Manchester College of Music, where his teachers were Thomas Keighley, Frank Merrick and Carl Fuchs. Later he won a scholarship to study art and cabinet-making at the Boston School of Art. His music was published by more than 50 publishers. Hubert J. Foss of the Oxford University Press published many of his compositions, illustrations, frontispieces and cover-designs, which he made for various publications, including the one for Benjamin Britten's Simple Symphony. As a composer he was influenced by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Percy Grainger and Frederick Delius. He was a prolific composer and his compositions include collections of miniatures for students and amateurs, a five-movement Sinfonietta, a Trio for flute, oboe and piano, concertos for piano, violin, recorder and percussion, a Xylophone Sonata, an Oboe Sonata, and solo works for accordion, clarsach, and harmonica. He also invented an instrument called “patterphone” to produce rain-like sounds. He wrote for many notable artists, such as Léon Goossens, Evelyn Rothwell, Archie Camden, Dolmetsch, and Osian Ellis. After training as a teacher, he became art master at Tettenhall College, Wolverhampton. Whilst there, as a pacifist, he joined t
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Three Minatures for Soprano and Piano: I. The Horseman
1302Sinfonietta: I. Introduction and Dance-Variants. Lento e flessibile - Allegro
413Xylophone Sonata: IV. Toccata
274Xylophone Sonata: III. Reel
265Xylophone Sonata: II. Intermezzo
236Xylophone Sonata: I. Introduction
237Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor: II. Grave
218Divertimento: II. Pastorale
199Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor: I. Allegro risoluto
1810Piano Concerto No. 2, "The Student": I. Dance-Prologue
18albums
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Thomas Pitfield: Chamber Music
PITFIELD: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 / Xylophone Sonata
Pitfield: Orchestral Music
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The Songs of Thomas Pitfield
Pitfield: String Chamber Music
English Recorder Music
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Flying Kites - A Trafford Miscellany
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The British Double Bass
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Carwithen & Pitfield: Violin Sonatas
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The Best Of British Light Music (5 CDs)
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Orchestral Music
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Thomas Pitfield: Piano Music