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Alan Frank was born on 10 October, 1910, is a Music publisher, clarinetist and composer. Discover Alan Frank's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 83 years old?

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1910

Alan Clifford Frank (10 October 1910 – 23 June 1994), was a music publisher, clarinetist and composer, who headed the Oxford University Press Music Department between 1954 and 1975.

He was married to the composer Phyllis Tate.

Frank grew up in the Brixton area of London.

His mother Fanny played the violin and had been taught by Joseph Joachim.

Gaining a scholarship to Dulwich College he studied clarinet with Frederick Thurston.

1927

In 1927, aged 17, he began working at the music department of Oxford University Press under Hubert Foss.

There he met Phyllis Tate.

1934

The Suite for Two Clarinets (1934) is his only composition to have maintained its place in the teaching repertoire.

1935

They were married in 1935.

His other publications included The Playing of Chamber Music with violinist and leader of the London Symphony Orchestra George Stratton (1935, 2nd. ed. 1951), and Modern British Composers (1953).

1940

They had two children: a son Colin, born in 1940 and a daughter Celia, in 1952.

During the war Frank served as an intelligence officer for the RAF and was posted to Ceylon.

1947

After the war he returned to OUP as music editor (1947), becoming head of the Music Department in 1954 (succeeding Norman Peterkin) and remained there until his retirement in 1975.

At the OUP offices (at 44 Conduit Street) Frank worked with composers including Ralph Vaughan Williams, William Walton, Alan Rawsthorne and Alun Hoddinott.

Frank kept up his interest in the clarinet.

He was the editor of the volumes This Year's Work in Music (Longmans, British Council), for 1947-8, 1948-49 and 1950-51.

1966

Later in life, in collaboration with his teacher Jack Thurston he wrote The Clarinet: A Comprehensive Method (1966), a book that is also still in use today by students.

Frank also collaborated with Thurston's widow, the composer and clarinetist Thea King on arrangements of Schumann and Mendelssohn for clarinet and piano, used as examination material for the Associated Board of Music.