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Leonard Salzedo
(1921-2000)
Leonard Salzedo, the most Spanish of British composers, was born in London in
1921. He began the violin at the age of six and started to compose when he was
twelve.
He was awarded the Cobbett Prize (1942) after only two years as a student at the
Royal College of Music (London) for his first string quartet: he would eventually
compose ten. Again, during his studies, he was commissioned to write the score for a
ballet, The Fugitive (1944), which was performed more than four hundred times by
Ballet Rambert.
The most renowned of Salzedos seventeen ballet scores, The Witch Boy, received its
premire in Amsterdam (1956). Since then, ballet companies around the world have
given in excess of three thousand performances in more than thirty-three countries.
The Witch Boy has featured on television in many of these including Germany, Japan
and New Zealand.
From 1947 - 1950 Leonard Salzedo was a member of the London Philharmonic
Orchestra. He then moved to the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (until 1966). Its
illustrious conductor, Sir Thomas Beecham, gave the premires of two of Salzedos
compositions at the Royal Festival Hall. As well as playing violin in the orchestra,
Leonard Salzedo became his assistant conductor. In 1964 he joined the London
Soloists Ensemble and composed Concerto Fervido especially for it.
In 1967, Salzedo abandoned the violin to become Musical Director of Ballet Rambert
(now the Rambert Dance Company), a post he held until 1972. The same year, he
moved to Scottish Ballet as their Principal Conductor (-1974). He was later to
become Music Director of London City Ballet (1982 -1986).
Thereafter, until his death in May 2000, Leonard Salzedo devoted himself almost
entirely to prolific composition. Although performing continuously for many years, he
composed more than 160 works including two symphonies.
The opening six bar fanfare of his Divertimento for Three Trumpets and Three
Trombones (1959) was used by the BBC as the theme music for all Open University
educational programmes broadcast on radio and television (1970s -1990s). He
composed eighteen film scores including Hammer's The Revenge of Frankenstein
(1959).
Leonard Salzedo was a wine connoisseur and member of the Confrrie des Chevaliers
du Sacavin, a Loire-based wine brotherhood with a London Chapter. For many years
he was their Chef des Beaux Arts and wrote fanfares, which were performed at dinners
and inductions.

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This work, one of his few without opus number, was completed around the time of
Leonard Salzedo's birthday in late September 1997. During the many years that we
were friends he wrote six works for me, of which this and Iberian Improvisations were
Leonard Salzedos final two compositions. He left the following paragraph about the
piece.

The Cancin de trilla is a threshing song and comes from Palma de Mallorca. The
Tonada de folias originated in Salinas. A tonada is a melody. This one has no
connection with the well-known Portuguese tune La Folia. Soy de Mieres (my family
originated in Mieres) comes from Asturias, as does the Ronda y contraronda. A ronda
is a children's song, which has alternating solo and choral sections. I have researched
and set these four original folk songs for oboe d'amore or other double reed instrument
and piano. It is the timbre of the double reed that I wish to use to portray these
traditional melodies.

Jennifer Paull
2001

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