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Michael Hurd (composer) was born on 19 December, 1928 in Gloucester, is an English composer, teacher and author (1928 - 2006). Discover Michael Hurd (composer)'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 77 years old?

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Occupation Composer, conductor, musicologist
Age 77 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 19 December, 1928
Birthday 19 December
Birthplace Gloucester
Date of death 8 August, 2006
Died Place Liss
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1928

Michael John Hurd (19 December 1928 – 8 August 2006) was a composer, teacher and author, principally known for his dramatic cantatas for schools and for his choral music.

Michael Hurd was born in Gloucester on 19 December 1928 and educated at The Crypt School, Gloucester, and Pembroke College, Oxford, where he studied music with Thomas Armstrong and Bernard Rose.

He was also a composition pupil of Lennox Berkeley.

1953

After National Service he taught at the Royal Marines Band School at Deal, (1953–59) before settling as a freelance composer in East Hampshire, where he took a leading role in the area's music-making.

1960

From the 1960s Hurd acted as general editor to the Novello Short Biographies series and wrote the volumes on Britten and Tippett.

He also wrote three volumes in the Faber Great Composers series.

His lifelong friends included the writer David Hughes and his wife Mai Zetterling.

1961

He bought the terraced, two-bedroom cottage at 4, Church Street, West Liss in 1961 and lived there for the rest of his life.

1962

Stephen Banfield, unimpressed by the critical stance of his 1962 biography of Boughton ("Hurd seemed unable to accept the poverty of Boughton's musical imagination - it would perhaps have been difficult to justify the biography had he done so"), was much more positive about The Ordeal of Ivor Gurney, published in 1978 ("not only authoritative and rounded but intensely moving").

1963

Jonah-Man Jazz followed on in the tradition of Herbert Chappell's The Daniel Jazz (1963), which had previously been issued by Hurd's publisher Novello.

Its popular success led Novello to pay Andrew Lloyd Webber a 100-guinea advance to compose a work along the same lines.

1964

• Little Billy (1964) (children's opera)

1966

His numerous dramatic works for schoolchildren, especially the "pop cantata" Jonah-Man Jazz (1966), were widely performed during his lifetime and are still heard in schools today.

However, as Geoffrey Bush pointed out, more serious pieces by Hurd such as the Missa brevis (also 1966) share equally the lyrical invention, sensitivity to words and understanding of the voice seen in his most popular works.

• Jonah-Man Jazz (1966) (pop cantata)

1968

This resulted in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1968).

1970

• Mr Punch (1970) (operatic entertainment for young people)

1971

Hughes wrote the libretto for Hurd's first chamber opera, The Widow of Ephesus (1971), and Hurd wrote the music scores for two Zetterling films, Flickorna (1968), and Scrubbers (1982).

He was also friends with the British-born Australian composer Michael Easton, with whom he helped establish the Port Fairy Spring Music Festival in Victoria, Australia.

There are three chamber operas: The Widow of Ephesus (1971), The Aspern Papers (1994), and The Night of the Wedding (1998).

Of those, the three-act Aspern Papers, derived from the novella by Henry James, is the most substantial.

1973

His orchestral works include the three movement Sinfonia concertante in neo-classical style, first performed in 1973 by the Kathleen Merritt String Orchestra, and the more ambitious four movement choral symphony The Shepherd's Calendar (1975), a setting of John Clare's 1827 poem.

• Swingin' Samson (1973) (pop cantata)

1975

• Hip Hip Horatio (1975) (oratorio)

• Rooster Rag (1975) (pop cantata)

1978

Like his fellow Petersfield resident, the tenor Wilfred Brown, Hurd championed the memory of Gerald Finzi (co-editing the composer's correspondence with Howard Ferguson), as well as Rutland Boughton (he was music advisor to the Rutland Boughton Music Trust from 1978 to 2006), Ivor Gurney and Cyril Scott.

• Pilgrim (1978) (musical morality)

1979

The Concerto da Camera of 1979 is a melodic oboe concerto showing the influence of Francis Poulenc.

1981

• Adam in Eden (1981) (pop cantata)

1986

• A New Nowell (1986) (cantata)

1987

• Captain Coram's Kids (1987) (pop cantata)

1989

• The Liberty Tree (1989) (ballad cantata)

1995

It was a success at the Port Fairy Spring Festival in Australia in 1995, and while it hasn't been revived since, it has been recorded.

1998

• Prodigal (1998, revised 1991) (pop cantata)

2004

His final work, the Three Piece Suite of 2004, was dedicated to the recorder player John Turner.

Much of his music has now been recorded, supported by a British Music Society Charitable Trust.

Notable recordings include the choral music and complete solo songs on Lyrita (two volumes), three of the chamber operas on Lyrita and Dutton Epoch, the pop cantatas on Naxos, and The Shepherd's Calendar on Dutton Epoch.

• Dramatic works for children

2006

He died on 8 August 2006 in Petersfield.

As a composer, Hurd was prolific.