Richard Stewart Addinsell ^{1 2}

  General Notes:

Educated privately Hertford Coll.,Oxford; Royal Coll. of Music. Spent 4
years in Berlin & Vienna. Contributed to Charlot's review,1926;composed
Adam's Opera 1928. Has since written songs and instrumental music for
many stage productions including The Good Companions, Alice in
Wonderland, L'Aiglon, The Happy Hypocrite, Trespass, Ring Round the Moon,
Penny Plain, Lyric Revue, Globe Revue, Airs on a Shoestring, Joyce
Grenfell requests the Pleasure, Living for Pleasure. Musical scores for
films include South Riding, Goodbye Mr Chips,The Lion has Wings,
Dangerous Moonlight (Warsaw Concerto), Love on the Dole, Blithe Spirit,
The Passionate Friends, Under Capricorn, Tom Brown's Schooldays, The
Prince and the Showgirl, A Tale of Two Cities, The Greengage Summer, The
Roman Spring of Mr Stone, The Waltz of the Toreadors, The War Lover.
During War of 1939-1945 wrote music for many documentary films. Also
composed for Radio and Television.
Address...1 Carlyle Mansions, Cheyne Walk, SW3. ref. Who was Who, 1980

Addinsell, Richard (1904 - 1977)

Remembered in Britain as composer of the Warsaw Concerto for the film
Dangerous Moonlight and as accompanist to Joyce Grenfell, Richard
Addinsell
studied music in Berlin and Vienna and later enjoyed a career as a
composer
chiefly for the theatre and the cinema.

Recommended Recording

Goodbye, Mr. Chips / Tom Brown's Schooldays
A Tale of Two Cities / Prince and the Showgirl
The Smoky Mountains Suite / Others
BBC Concert Orchestra / Kenneth Alwyn
Marco Polo 8.223732

Gazette Issue 47408 published on the 15 December 1977. Page 76

Name of Deceased (Surname first): ADDINSELL, Richard Stewart
Address, description and date of death of
Deceased: 1 Carlyle Mansions, Cheyne Walk, London
S.W.3, Composer. 14th November 1977.
Names, addresses and descriptions of Persons to whom notices of claims are to be
given and names, in parentheses, of Personal Representatives: Baileys Shaw & Gillett, 5 Berners Street, London W.I. (Patrick Willis Woodcock
and Victor Charles Michael Lister.)

  Noted events in his life were:

• He worked as a Composer. Remembered in Britain as composer of the Warsaw Concerto for the film Dangerous
Moonlight and as accompanist to Joyce Grenfell, Richard Addinsell studied music
in Berlin and Vienna and later enjoyed a career as a composer chiefly for the
theatre and the cinema.