Richard Drakeford
Richard Jeremy Drakeford (5 November 1936 – 12 November 2009) was a British composer of classical music. Richard Drakeford was born in Southwark (London), Drakeford was a Westminster Abbey Choirboy and then became a Music Scholar at Clifton College and during that time became a composition pupil of Herbert Howells and Edmund Rubbra and studied at Worcester College, Oxford, where he was the Organ Scholar between 1955 and 1958. He was one of the founders, in 1961, of the [[Little Missenden#Culture and community|Little Missenden [Music] Festival]] and acted as its Music Advisor until his death.
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Richard Drakeford
- Born
- 1936
- Died
- 2009
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Occupation
- composer
- Education
- Clifton College · Worcester College
- Languages
- English
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Born in 1936, died in 2009.
Richard Drakeford studied at Clifton College and Worcester College. The recorded working language is English.
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- 1.ONS. Index entry. FreeBMD.
- 2.Christopher Sparkhall (compiler). The Organ Scholars of Worcester College, Oxford.
- 3.Lucy Parham/Harriet Walter | Little Missenden Festival. Little-missenden.org.
- 4.Harrow School Register 2002 8th edition edited by S W Bellringer & published by The Harrow Association
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