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After studying at Hertford College, Oxford , Addinsell went to the Royal College Of Music in 1925 and continued his musical education in Berlin, Vienna and the USA. Films for which he wrote the music include:
The '' Warsaw Concerto '' was written for the 1941 film, '' Dangerous Moonlight '', and continues to be a popular piano piece. The film-makers wanted something in the style of Sergei Rachmaninov , but were unable to persuade Rachmaninov himself to write a piece. Addinsell also wrote the short orchestral piece "Southern Rhapsody", which was played every morning at the start of black-and-white TV broadcasts by the former Southern Television company in southeastern England from 1958 to 1969. Like much of his film music, it has been heard by millions of people who do not know either its title or the composer's name, and is still fondly remembered even today. |
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