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Herbert Menges was born on 27 August, 1902, is an English composer and conductor. Discover Herbert Menges'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 69 years old?

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1902

Herbert Menges OBE (27 August 1902 – 20 February 1972) was an English conductor and composer, who wrote incidental music to all of Shakespeare's plays.

Siegfried Frederick Herbert Menges was born in Hove on 27 August 1902.

His father was German and his mother British.

His elder sister was the violinist Isolde Menges.

Herbert appeared in public as a violinist at the age of four.

He later abandoned the violin for the piano, and he studied at the Royal College of Music under Gustav Holst and Ralph Vaughan Williams.

Other teachers included Mathilde Verne and Arthur De Greef.

1925

Menges's mother Kate founded the Brighton Symphony Players in 1925 and the first concert was given in the Hove Town Hall on 18 May 1925, conducted by Herbert Menges.

1931

In 1931 he became musical director of the Old Vic Theatre, in which capacity he wrote (or arranged from composers such as Henry Purcell ) incidental music for all the plays of William Shakespeare, and numerous plays by other writers.

In 1931 he founded the London Rehearsal Orchestra, whose purpose was to help young musicians learn difficult pieces.

1933

He was associated with the productions of John Gielgud from 1933 onwards.

His assistant there for three years was John Cook.

1935

He was married in 1935 to Evelyn Stiebel and had three children, Nicholas, Christopher (an Academy Award-winning cinematographer) and Susannah.

Herbert Menges made a number of recordings, almost all of which were of concertante works:

1941

From 1941 to 1944, alongside Lawrance Collingwood he conducted performances in London and around Britain for operas with the Sadler's Wells Theatre Orchestra, before returning to the Old Vic company when it moved to the New Theatre.

He toured with Laurence Olivier and Ralph Richardson to Paris, Germany, the Low countries and New York, where he also conducted the CBS Symphony Orchestra.

He also became musical director of the Royalty Theatre in London.

1945

After some years the Players evolved into the Brighton Philharmonic Society, a forerunner of the Southern Philharmonic Orchestra, a professional group based in Brighton from 1945 which also gave regular concerts in Portsmouth and Hastings.

Menges was a powerful advocate of the regional professional orchestras.

1949

Notable among these was his music for a 1949 production of Love's Labour's Lost.

1950

He remained with the Old Vic until 1950.

1951

In 1951 he wrote the music for the Laurence Olivier-Vivien Leigh Broadway production of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra.

That same year, Malcolm Arnold dedicated his A Sussex Overture, Op. 31, to Herbert Menges and the Brighton Philharmonic Society.

He considered that he had a strong affinity with Bach and conducted the Viennese classics and composers such as Verdi and Tchaikovsky with restraint, while his Brahms and Dvorak are warmer in his interpretations.

His rehearsal and conducting technique were commended for their economy and he would often forego the baton in more expressive passages.

A later critic, discussing his recordings, praised the rhythmic acuity, superb internal balance in the orchestra and the precision of attack he achieved, comparing his approach with Paray and Monteux.

He had conducted engagements with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

1958

He remained the orchestra's musical director for the remaining 47 years of his life, during which time it became the Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra in 1958, and conducted the orchestra 326 times.

He conducted the premieres of a number of works by contemporary English composers.

1962

He became Director of Music at the Chichester Festival Theatre in 1962.

1963

Herbert Menges was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1963.

1972

He died on 20 February 1972, in London, aged 69.

His name now appears as a tribute on some Brighton and Hove buses.

Many of his letters and scores are held at McMaster University Library, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.