Alan Rawsthorne

Alan Rawsthorne was born in Deardengate House, Haslingden, Lancashire, to Hubert Rawsthorne (1868–1943), a well-off medical doctor, and his wife, Janet Bridge (1877/8–1927). As a result, he unsuccessfully tried to take on degree courses at Liverpool University, first in dentistry and then architecture.

His first real public success arrived four years later with a performance of his Theme and Variations for Two Violins at the 1938 International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) Festival in London. The next year, his large-scale Symphonic Studies for orchestra was performed in Warsaw, again at the ISCM Festival. Other works include a cello concerto, three acknowledged string quartets among other chamber works, and three symphonies. His best–known work in this field was the music for the 1953 British war film The Cruel Sea, and his other scores included many popular British films, such as The Captive Heart (1946), School for Secrets (1946), Uncle Silas (1947), Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948), Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951), Where No Vultures Fly (1951), West of Zanzibar (1954), The Man Who Never Was (1956) and Floods of Fear (1958).

They separated in 1947 and divorced in 1954.[1] Hinchcliffe went on to marry René Leibowitz in Paris. Her contemporaries included André Derain, Alberto Giacometti, Pablo Picasso and Francis Bacon. Alan Rawsthorne was her third husband; Sefton Delmer (a journalist and member of the Special Operations Executive during the Second World War) was her first husband.

Madame Chrysanthème (1955)

Light Music for Strings (1938) Symphonic Studies (1938) Cortèges, Fantasy Overture (1945) Concerto for String Orchestra (1949) Symphonies Symphony No. 1 (1950) Symphony No. 2 A Pastoral Symphony (1959) Symphony No. 3 (1964) Improvisations on a Theme by Constant Lambert (1960) Music from film The Cruel Sea Divertimento for Chamber Orchestra (1962) Elegiac Rhapsody for Strings (1963) Hallé Overture Suite from Madame Chrysanthème Overture for Farnham Prisoners' March – from film The Captive Heart Street Corner Overture Theme, Variations and Finale Triptych for orchestra 'Suite for Brass Band' (1964)

Clarinet Concerto (1936–37) Oboe Concerto (1947) Concertante Pastorale for flute, horn and orchestra (1951) Cello Concerto (1966) Violin Violin Concerto No. 1 (1948) Violin Concerto No. 2 (1956) Piano Piano Concerto No. 1 (1939, revised 1942) Piano Concerto No. 2 (1951) Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra (1968)

Sonatina for Flute, Oboe and Piano (1936) Concertante for Piano and Violin (1937) Theme and Variations for Two Violins (1937) Clarinet Quartet (1948) Concerto for Ten Instruments (1961) Piano Trio (1962) Quintet for Piano, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn & Bassoon (1963) String Quartets String Quartet No. 1 (1939) String Quartet No. 2 (1954) String Quartet No. 3 (1965) Piano Quintet (1968) Suite for Flute, Viola and Harp (1968)

Viola Sonata (1937, revised 1953) Cello Sonata (1949) Violin Sonata (1960) Elegy for Guitar (1971) Suite for Treble Recorder & Piano

Ballade in G sharp minor (Dated Christmas 1929) Bagatelles (1938) Piano Sonatina (1949) Four Romantic Pieces (1953) Ballade (1967) The Creel: suite for piano duet

Carmen Vitale: choral suite A Canticle of Man: chamber cantata The God in a Cave: cantata Medieval Diptych 962 Practical Cats for speaker and orchestra Tankas of the Four Seasons

Canzonet from A Garland for the Queen (France 2011) Four Seasonal Songs Lament for a Sparrow The Oxen A Rose for Lidice

Three French Nursery Songs We Three Merry Maids Two Songs to Words by John Fletcher Carol Saraband (with Ernest Irving) Scena Rustica for soprano and harp Two Fish