About: Harry Dexter

Facets (new session)
Description
Metadata
Settings
- Rule:
- Inverse Functional Properties:
- "Same As":

About: Harry Dexter Goto Sponge NotDistinct Permalink

An Entity of Type : yago:WikicatEnglishComposers, within Data Space : dbpedia.org associated with source document(s)
QRcode icon

http://dbpedia.org/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fresource%2FHarry_Dexter

Harry Dexter (1910–1973) was an English music critic and a composer of light music best known for his "Siciliano" of 1953. He was born in Sheffield and obtained a Bachelor of Music degree at Durham University. During World War II, whilst serving overseas as an army captain he composed a prize-winning symphony, but after the war he found himself without work and moved to London where he scraped a living "song plugging" and arranging for various publishers. He married Doris Herbert with whom he had a son Philip, and a stepson Francis.

Attributes	Values
rdf:type	Thing foaf:Person person dul:NaturalPerson schema:MusicGroup Eukaryote Homo sapiens Artist Human Animal animal eukaryote species schema:Person yago:WikicatLightMusicComposers yago:Alumnus109786338 yago:Artist109812338 yago:CausalAgent100007347 yago:Composer109947232 yago:Creator109614315 yago:Intellectual109621545 yago:LivingThing100004258 yago:Musician110339966 yago:Object100002684 yago:Organism100004475 yago:Person100007846 yago:PhysicalEntity100001930 yago:YagoLegalActor yago:YagoLegalActorGeo artist musical artist yago:Scholar110557854 yago:Whole100003553 yago:WikicatAlumniOfDurhamUniversity yago:WikicatEnglishComposers
rdfs:label	Harry Dexter (en)
rdfs:comment	Harry Dexter (1910–1973) was an English music critic and a composer of light music best known for his "Siciliano" of 1953. He was born in Sheffield and obtained a Bachelor of Music degree at Durham University. During World War II, whilst serving overseas as an army captain he composed a prize-winning symphony, but after the war he found himself without work and moved to London where he scraped a living "song plugging" and arranging for various publishers. He married Doris Herbert with whom he had a son Philip, and a stepson Francis. (en)
dcterms:subject	1910 births 1973 deaths 20th-century English composers Alumni of Durham University Light music composers 20th-century classical musicians
Wikipage page ID	29637741 (xsd:integer)
Wikipage revision ID	1089161118 (xsd:integer)
Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage	Ron Grainer Light music Music critic 1910 births Eric Coates Maigret (1960 TV series) 1973 deaths BBC Light Programme 20th-century English composers Alumni of Durham University Light music composers Oxbridge 20th-century classical musicians City of Sheffield Francis, Day and Hunter
sameAs	Harry Dexter Harry Dexter Harry Dexter Harry Dexter Harry Dexter Harry Dexter
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate	dbt:UK-composer-stub dbt:Authority_control dbt:Reflist dbt:Short_description dbt:Use_dmy_dates
has abstract	Harry Dexter (1910–1973) was an English music critic and a composer of light music best known for his "Siciliano" of 1953. He was born in Sheffield and obtained a Bachelor of Music degree at Durham University. During World War II, whilst serving overseas as an army captain he composed a prize-winning symphony, but after the war he found himself without work and moved to London where he scraped a living "song plugging" and arranging for various publishers. During the 1950s, his lighter style of composition found favour with tastes in radio and television, particularly the BBC Light Programme. It has been said that one of his pieces was used as the signature-tune for the original Maigret series for BBC Television in 1960, although the credit for the theme tune and background music goes to composer Ron Grainer. He joined London music publisher Francis, Day and Hunter and later rose to become head of their light orchestral department, where in addition to composing gave advice to other composers in this field. It was during this period he composed numerous short orchestral pieces include "Frankfurt Polka", "Bavarian Polka", "Budgerigar Polka", "Pas de Trois", "Pizzicato Playtime", "Waltz for a Bride", "September Woods" and his most famous work "Siciliano" in 1953. He also wrote vocal pieces for schools, ballads for choral ensembles and a number of religious anthems, as well as large quantity of simplified arrangements of famous classical works for use in teaching. In addition to this work, Dexter was music critic for several musical periodicals and in 1956 founded the Light Music Society, where he served as Chairman for several years, with Eric Coates as its first President. His final composition was "Pizzicato for a Poodle" in 1972. He married Doris Herbert with whom he had a son Philip, and a stepson Francis. (en)
gold:hypernym	Critic
schema:sameAs	http://viaf.org/viaf/43177102
prov:wasDerivedFrom	wikipedia-en:Harry_Dexter?oldid=1089161118&ns=0
page length (characters) of wiki page	2739 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
country	United Kingdom
nationality	United Kingdom
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf	wikipedia-en:Harry_Dexter
is Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage of	Anthony Collins (composer) Dexter (name) The Time Meddler 1973 in British music Chas. H. Hansen Music Corp.
is foaf:primaryTopic of	wikipedia-en:Harry_Dexter

Faceted Search & Find service v1.17_git139 as of Feb 29 2024

Alternative Linked Data Documents: ODE Content Formats:

RDF

ODATA

Microdata

About

OpenLink Virtuoso version 08.03.3330 as of Mar 19 2024, on Linux (x86_64-generic-linux-glibc212), Single-Server Edition (61 GB total memory, 51 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2024 OpenLink Software