Shakespeare music composers biography

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How Shakespeare has inspired composers through the centuries

‘He really didn’t have to die,’ a pre-teen me whispered at an underground cinema in post-revolutionary Tehran, where a heavily censored version of Grigori Kozintsev’s Hamlet had somehow magically found its way to the screen. Soon my quiet sobbing was drowned in Shostakovich’s Funeral March as Fortinbras’s solders carried Hamlet’s body out of Elsinore. This was my first encounter not only with Shostakovich’s music but also with Shakespeare: ‘Forswear it, sight! For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.’ Berlioz was surely not exaggerating when he exclaimed: ‘To arrive at 45 or 50 without knowing Hamlet! To have lived that long in the dark!’ Back in Tehran I was thankfully much younger. But my life would be shaped for ever by the magnificent power of music and Shakespeare.

‘Their savage eyes turn’d to a modest gaze / By the sweet power of music’

(The Merchant of Venice)

Shostakovich’s scores for Kozintsev’s Hamlet () and King Lear () are among the most often recorded and performed of Shakespearean film music, rivalled only, perhaps, by Sir William Walton’s for Sir Laurence Olivier. But despite the similar symphonic nature of their soundtracks, the two director–composer collaborations were very di

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Thomas Arne

Thomas Arne was born in London in Discouraged from an early age by his father to become a musician, Arne left Eton to follow a career in law. However, after much persuasion from his friend and composer, Michael Festing, his father agreed that Arne should follow a career in music. He became a prolific composer of operas, which were frequently performed at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, masques and Shakespeare song settings.

His first composition of importance, ‘Rosamund’, took place in Lincoln’s Inn and was a great success, being repeated ten times. Three very successful masques followed in succession, the first, Comus’, which was performed at the Drury Lane Theatre, the second, ‘The Judgement of Paris’, performed at Cliveden in front of the Prince of Wales to celebrate the birthday of his daughter, and the third, The Masque of Althred’ which concludes with his well-known masterpiece ‘Rule Britannia’. In Arne composed the music for the first in a series of Shakespeare plays, ‘As you Like It’, ‘Twelfth Night’, ‘The Merchant of Venice’, ‘The Tempest’ and ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost’.

Some of his greatest successes include his opera ‘Artaxerxes the Great’, at Covent Garden, and the masque ‘The Arcadian Nuptials’, written to celebrate the marriage of Princess Augus