Sir Adrian Cedric Boult CH (8 April 1889 – 22 February 1983) was an English conductor.
Boult was born in Chester and educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford. As a schoolboy, he attended Sir Henry Wood's Saturday afternoon and Sunday concert series, seeing Debussy and Arthur Nikisch conduct. After the formation of the London Symphony Orchestra he attended those concerts too, featuring leading conductors of the day.
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Sir Adrian Cedric Boult CH (8 April 1889 – 22 February 1983) was an English conductor.
Boult was born in Chester and educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford. As a schoolboy, he attended Sir Henry Wood's Saturday afternoon and Sunday concert series, seeing Debussy and Arthur Nikisch conduct. After the formation of the London Symphony Orchestra he attended those concerts too, featuring leading conductors of the day.
A family friend Frank Schuster, who was a friend of Edward Elgar, introduced the young Boult to the composer around 1905. By the time he went to Oxford and began conducting, Boult had a good collection of scores, and knew many of them by heart. In 1909, the 20-year-old Boult read a paper to the Oriana Society entitled Some notes on performance, in which he laid down three precepts for an ideal performance: observance of the composer's wishes, clarity through emphasis on balance and structure, a final effect of music made utterly without effort. These guiding...
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