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and Eric Roseberry were among his students at Durham. Mitchell recalled that he gained a reputation for his eccentricity and unconventional approach while at Durham. "He was exuberantly pro-music and opposed, perhaps not so much to the properly academic as to the paralytic academicism. His
78:. He wrote the school song in 1939, and in 1941 married the school secretary, Marie Constance Haverson. During this period he conducted the Southend String Orchestra. When war was declared he acted as an entertainment officer in the UK, before a period serving with the 191:
His compositional activities largely ceased once writing and teaching became his major concerns. He mostly wrote Anglican church music, including various anthems and a Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis in B minor (1934), organ music (the four
43:, Hutchings had no formal musical education but played piano and violin to a high standard and sang as a chorister. He taught, performed and composed, and was appointed organist at All Saints Church, 113:. He became a widower in 1975, and soon afterwards his only daughter Josephine (born 1944) was killed in a traffic accident. Towards the end of his life he moved to the village of 596: 581: 576: 591: 586: 566: 135:
and other journals from 1935. He wrote extensively on topics as varied as nineteenth-century English liturgical composition,
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After completing his war service in 1947 Hutchings was appointed as the first resident professor of music at
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in 1929. While training as a teacher in London he made some key musical friendships during the 1930s: with
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appointment...knocked a few holes in windows that had been overlaid by blinkered, unthinking tradition".
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listed it as one of the "vital book" on the single shelf in his study, and later provided a foreword to
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where in 1953 he completed a thesis on Mozart's piano concertos for his doctorate. The musicologists
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of 1984, each based on a popular hymn tune), and a large scale choral work,
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Donald Mitchell. 'Loving airs, not graces: Arthur Hutchings obituary',
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in India. While in India he took a keen interest in the local music.
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In 1968 he was appointed as the first professor of music at the
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Hutchings life and work with audio, documents, photos etc
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Company and three of his tunes were included in the 1986
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Arthur Hutchings: An Appreciation of his Life and Work
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David Scott. 'Hutchings, Arthur (James Bramwell)' in
232:The Shocking Affair: variations in pastiche style 533: 511:Arthur Hutchings: audio compositions and talks 154:, published in 1948 and often reissued since. 120: 70:In 1938 Hutchings became music master at 20: 332: 330: 263:Companion to the Mozart Piano Concertos 534: 382: 380: 281:Church Music in the Nineteenth Century 269:The Invention and Composition of Music 168:Church Music in the Nineteenth Century 164:The Invention and Composition of Music 399:Arthur Hutchings. 'Music in Bengal’, 348: 346: 327: 208:. There were also two comic operas ( 377: 365: 363: 361: 293:Introduction to Constant Lambert's 13: 597:20th-century British musicologists 343: 300:'Music in Britain: 1918–1960', in 162:(1976). Among his other books are 14: 613: 520: 310:(1976, foreword by Kingsley Amis) 16:British musicologist and composer 582:20th-century classical musicians 358: 577:20th-century English historians 502: 487: 474: 304:Vol. 10 (1974), pp. 503–68 237: 29:Arthur James Bramwell Hutchings 592:20th-century English musicians 587:20th-century British composers 567:Academics of Durham University 459: 444: 431: 406: 393: 246:(Master Musicians series 1945) 74:, where one of his pupils was 1: 320: 286:'The Nineteenth Century', in 257:Delius – a Critical Biography 222:) in 1956, a secular cantata 117:. 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Sunbury-on-Thames
East Sheen
Constant Lambert
Cecil Gray
Sorabji
Cyril Rootham
Edmund Rubbra
Southend High School for Boys
Bernard Stevens
Royal Air Force
Durham University
Peter Evans
Donald Mitchell
University of Exeter
Dalwood
Axminster
Colyton
Harvey Grace
Musical Times
Schubert
Purcell
Edmund Rubbra
Mozart's Piano Concertos
Kingsley Amis
Records and Recording
Music & Letters
The Listener
English Hymnal
New English Hymnal

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