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Brian Easdale (10 August 1909 – 30 October 1995) was a British composer of operatic, orchestral, choral and film music, best known for his ballet film score The Red Shoes of 1948.
Brian Easdale. Composer: The Red Shoes. Brian studied under Gordon Jacob and Armstrong Gibbs at the RCM (Royal College of Music). He wrote his first opera (Rapunzel) at the age of 17 and at age 20 had the honor of having a Dead March processional he had written performed by the London Symphony Orchestra under Sir 'Malcolm Sargent'.
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Feb 8, 2018 · Brian Easdale - Peeping Tom (1960) " The Murder/A Childhood in Film/Peeping Tom" Performed by Paul Bateman.
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Brian Easdale became the first British composer to receive and Oscar for film music (for "The Red Shoes"). He kept the statuette on his mantle shelf. Whilst in India, he met and befriended Rumer Godden (which eventually led to him scoring "Black Narcissus" for Powell and Pressburger).
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Brian Easdale was a prolific composer whose extensive output covered most genres, from orchestral pieces, concertos, and choral works, including a mass for the new Coventry Cathedral, to chamber compositions.
Oct 9, 2020 · Brian Easdale's hard-to-find piano transcription of his own 'The Red Shoes Ballet' music, from the much-loved 1948 Powell & Pressburger film based on Hans Ch...
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Musical director of Information Films of India (1945-46). It was this Indian connection that brought him a commission for the film The Black Narcissus. On his return to England in 1946 he was appointed musical director of the Archers Film Unit, a position he relinquished in 1949.
