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154:. Mathieson rarely wrote the music for the films on which he worked, considering himself to lack the talent for original composition, but he helped the composers who wrote for him to make their material precisely fit the action of the film, and he arranged concert suites from some of the scores he commissioned. He was responsible as musical director, arranger, conductor or occasionally composer for nearly a thousand films. 179:, followed Muir into the musical profession and became a conductor and musical director in British films. Jessie ("Jen") Mathieson was a talented musician, who among other engagements foreshadowed her sons' careers by playing the piano accompaniment for silent films at the local cinema. As a teenager Mathieson formed and conducted a youth orchestra in Stirling. 234:. When Mathieson joined Korda's team the film industry was refining synchronised sound on film, with recorded music accompanying the on-screen images. According to Mathieson's biographer Andrew Youdell, Schröder contributed "a reasonable though hardly memorable background score" to Korda's first major success, 286:
in London, when Mathieson deputised at a few minutes' notice after the scheduled conductor, Sargent, was taken ill during a performance of the piece, in which Darnborough danced the role of the Spirit of Spring. They had one son and three daughters, among them the actress Fiona Mathieson (1951–1987)
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Youdell comments that Mathieson's name appeared so frequently on film credits as musical director that there grew a widespread assumption that he composed the music, but in fact he preferred to commission scores from other musicians, believing himself to have little talent for original composition.
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His biographer S. J. Hetherington records that Mathieson arranged, directed, conducted, and occasionally composed, the music for almost one thousand films during his career. In addition to his work in films he conducted in the concert hall, particularly with youth orchestras. He was appointed
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wrote, "If you wanted to write music for films at that time you had to be 'in' with Muir". Mathieson believed that music written for the screen could not only become an integral part of the film but could be an entity in itself, on a par with theatrical incidental music written by
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Walton did not share Mathieson's view that film music could or should be adapted for the concert hall or recording – he said, "Film music is not good film music if it can be used for any other purpose" – but he allowed Mathieson to arrange a concert suite from the
208:, Mathieson "made the points of a witty score pointedly". While still a student he undertook a range of jobs, from conducting a choir of Welsh miners, to touring Canada conducting a ballet company, and taking the baton for an amateur production of 768:; it was to have been recorded in the US, but because of a musicians' strike there Mathieson conducted the recording in Vienna. In 1966 he wrote and directed a series of twenty-four short films, collectively entitled 554:
that he found the suite "rather tame" compared with the original film score. During the war Mathieson conducted frequent public concerts, sometimes programming suites from other film scores that he had commissioned.
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conducting a choir. During the early 1950s, Youdell writes, Mathieson continued to be "a principal force in the musical design of British feature films", commissioning music from new film composers including
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as "one of the greatest and most imaginative productions of the war period" and Walton's score as of "almost unparalleled beauty in its melody, orchestration, and construction".
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states that Mathieson also studied under her husband at the Royal College, but this is not substantiated in the biographies of Mathieson by Hetherington or Youdell.
240:(1933), after which political developments in Continental Europe led him to return to his native Germany in 1934, succeeded as Korda's head of music by Mathieson. 427:(1935). The last of these was regarded as a landmark in film music, and the score was quickly arranged into a concert suite, becoming a best-seller for 1156: 1803: 1778: 1753: 311:, "more than anyone else, he was responsible for the British practice of engaging independent composers for films, instead of maintaining (as did 490:
Mathieson worked with many other composers during the war; apart from those with Vaughan Williams, his most conspicuous collaboration was with
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While Mathieson was in charge of music for Korda, a range of composers provided scores, including his old teacher, Arthur Benjamin, and
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American distributors insisted that Adler's name must be removed from the credits because of his continuing refusal to co-operate with
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film units. By now he had considerable experience of commissioning film scores, and he approached the veteran
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Mathieson relaxed his insistence on newly commissioned music, and at Coward's behest arranged and conducted
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in London from February 1929, winning a succession of scholarships. At the college he studied piano with
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singled him out, commenting that in his handling of a college production of Benjamin's musical farce
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In his later years Mathieson worked as a freelance music director. He commissioned the score of
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a second of music", and he enjoyed working with the studio team. Mathieson conducted the
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Mathieson graduated from the college in 1933, and Sargent recommended him to
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Born in Scotland, to a musical family, Mathieson won a scholarship to the
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music. Walton conducted a recording of it in 1963, though he later told
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Davie (1884–1954), a violinist, pianist and teacher. The younger son,
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Among the composers from whom Mathieson commissioned film scores were
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By the end of the war Mathieson had become musical director for the
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in June 1935. This was a revised version of the thus-far unstaged
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adaptation of Shakespeare's play. Youdell describes the film of
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In 1946 Mathieson extended his activities to directing, with
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in September 1939 Mathieson became musical director to the
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Vaughan Williams later provided the score for the film
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for his services to music, and was a governor of the
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Index


Stirling
Hermione Darnborough
OBE
musical director
Royal College of Music
Malcolm Sargent
Alexander Korda
Second World War
Rank Organisation
Arthur Bliss
Ralph Vaughan Williams
William Walton
Benjamin Britten
Stirling
Dock
Stirling High School
Royal College of Music
Arthur Benjamin
Malcolm Sargent
The Times
The Pirates of Penzance
Alexander Korda
Kurt Schröder
London Films
The Private Life of Henry VIII
Kurt Weill
Savoy Theatre
Der Kuhhandel
Brompton Oratory

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