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Sir Neville Marriner (born April 15, 1924) is an English conductor
Conducting

Conducting is the act of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. Orchestras, choirs, concert bands and other musical ensembles often have conductors....
 and violin
Violin

The violin is a Bow string instrument with four strings usually tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest and highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which also includes the viola and cello....
ist.

Marriner was born in Lincoln and studied at the Royal College of Music
Royal College of Music

The Royal College of Music is a college or university school of music located in the South Kensington district of London, England, and historically one of the most influential music institutions in Europe....
 and the Paris Conservatoire. He played the violin in the Philharmonia
Philharmonia

The Philharmonia is an orchestra based in London. Since 1995 it has been based in the Royal Festival Hall. In Britain it is also the resident orchestra at De Montfort Hall, Leicester and the Corn Exchange, Bedford, as well as The Anvil, Basingstoke....
 Orchestra and London Symphony Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra

The London Symphony Orchestra is a major orchestra of the United Kingdom, as well as one of the best-known orchestras in the world. Since 1982, the LSO has been based in London's Barbican Arts Centre....
. He later formed the Jacobean Ensemble with Thurston Dart
Thurston Dart

Robert Thurston Dart , was an eminent United Kingdom musicology, conductor and keyboard player. From 1964 he was Professor of Music at King's College London....
 before going to Hancock, Maine
Hancock, Maine

Hancock is a town in Hancock County, Maine, Maine, United States. The population was 2,147 at the 2000 United States Census. Located on the mainland at the head of Frenchman Bay, Hancock has commanding views of Mount Desert Island....
 in the United States to study conducting with Pierre Monteux
Pierre Monteux

Pierre Monteux was an orchestra conducting. Born in Paris, France, rue de la Grange Bateli?re. Monteux later became an American citizen....
 at his school there. In 1959, he founded the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

The Academy of St Martin in the Fields is an England chamber music orchestra.The group was founded in London by Sir Neville Marriner, attracting some of the most accomplished players in London, many of whom considered themselves to be refugees from conductors....
 chamber orchestra and recorded widely with them.

Outside of the UK, Marriner was the first music director of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra

The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra is a 40-member United States chamber orchestra based in Los Angeles, California, California, praised by the music critic Jim Svejda as "America's finest chamber orchestra."....
, from 1969 to 1978.






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Sir Neville Marriner (born April 15, 1924) is an English conductor
Conducting

Conducting is the act of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. Orchestras, choirs, concert bands and other musical ensembles often have conductors....
 and violin
Violin

The violin is a Bow string instrument with four strings usually tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest and highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which also includes the viola and cello....
ist.

Marriner was born in Lincoln and studied at the Royal College of Music
Royal College of Music

The Royal College of Music is a college or university school of music located in the South Kensington district of London, England, and historically one of the most influential music institutions in Europe....
 and the Paris Conservatoire. He played the violin in the Philharmonia
Philharmonia

The Philharmonia is an orchestra based in London. Since 1995 it has been based in the Royal Festival Hall. In Britain it is also the resident orchestra at De Montfort Hall, Leicester and the Corn Exchange, Bedford, as well as The Anvil, Basingstoke....
 Orchestra and London Symphony Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra

The London Symphony Orchestra is a major orchestra of the United Kingdom, as well as one of the best-known orchestras in the world. Since 1982, the LSO has been based in London's Barbican Arts Centre....
. He later formed the Jacobean Ensemble with Thurston Dart
Thurston Dart

Robert Thurston Dart , was an eminent United Kingdom musicology, conductor and keyboard player. From 1964 he was Professor of Music at King's College London....
 before going to Hancock, Maine
Hancock, Maine

Hancock is a town in Hancock County, Maine, Maine, United States. The population was 2,147 at the 2000 United States Census. Located on the mainland at the head of Frenchman Bay, Hancock has commanding views of Mount Desert Island....
 in the United States to study conducting with Pierre Monteux
Pierre Monteux

Pierre Monteux was an orchestra conducting. Born in Paris, France, rue de la Grange Bateli?re. Monteux later became an American citizen....
 at his school there. In 1959, he founded the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

The Academy of St Martin in the Fields is an England chamber music orchestra.The group was founded in London by Sir Neville Marriner, attracting some of the most accomplished players in London, many of whom considered themselves to be refugees from conductors....
 chamber orchestra and recorded widely with them.

Outside of the UK, Marriner was the first music director of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra

The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra is a 40-member United States chamber orchestra based in Los Angeles, California, California, praised by the music critic Jim Svejda as "America's finest chamber orchestra."....
, from 1969 to 1978. From 1979 to 1986, he was music director of the Minnesota Orchestra
Minnesota Orchestra

The Minnesota Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Emil Oberhoffer founded the orchestra in 1903 as the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, which gave its first performance on November 5 of that year....
. In Germany, he was principal conductor of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra
Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra

The Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra is an orchestra based in Stuttgart in Germany. The ensemble was founded in 1945 by USA occupation authorities as the orchestra for Radio Stuttgart, under the name Sinfonieorchester von Radio Stuttgart ....
 from 1986 to 1989.

Marriner has recorded for various labels, including Argo, L'Oiseau Lyre, Philips and EMI Classics. His recorded repertoire ranges from the baroque era to 20th century British music, as well as opera. Among his recordings are two CDs of British music for Philips Classics with Julian Lloyd Webber
Julian Lloyd Webber

Julian Lloyd Webber is one of the world's most renowned solo cellists....
, including acclaimed performances of Benjamin Britten
Benjamin Britten

Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, Order of Merit Order of the Companions of Honour was an England composer, conducting, viola and pianist....
's Cello
Cello

The violoncello is a bowed string instrument. A person who plays a cello is called a cellist. The cello is used as a solo instrument, in chamber music, and as a member of the string section of an orchestra....
 Symphony
Symphony

A symphony is a musical composition, often extended and usually for orchestra. "Symphony" does not imply a specific form. Many symphonies are tonality works in four movement with the first in sonata form, and this is often described by music theorists as the structure of a "Classical period " symphony, although even some symphonies by the ac...
 and Sir William Walton
William Walton

Sir William Turner Walton Order of Merit was a United Kingdom composer and Conductor .His style was influenced by the works of Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Prokofiev as well as jazz music, and is characterized by rhythmic vitality, bittersweet harmony, sweeping Romantic music melody and brilliant orchestration....
's Cello Concerto
Concerto

The term Concerto usually refers to a three-part musical work in which one solo instrument is accompanied by an orchestra. The concerto, as understood in this modern way, arose in the Baroque period side by side with the concerto grosso, which contrasted a small group of instruments with the rest of the orchestra....
. Marriner also supervised the Mozart selections for the soundtrack of the 1984 film Amadeus
Amadeus (film)

Amadeus is a 1984 in film drama film directed by Milo? Forman and written by Peter Shaffer. Based on Shaffer's stage play Amadeus, the film is based loosely on the lives of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri, two composers who lived in Vienna, Austria, during the later half of the 18th century....
..

Marriner was knight
Knight

File:Gothic armor 2.jpgKnight is the term for a social position originating in the Middle Ages. In the Commonwealth of Nations, knighthood is a non-heritable form of gentry....
ed in 1985. He is the father of the clarinettist Andrew Marriner
Andrew Marriner

Andrew Marriner is a British Classical music clarinetist and the son of the famed conductor Neville Marriner. He was a boy chorister in the Choir of King's College, Cambridge....
, Principal Clarinet of the London Symphony Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra

The London Symphony Orchestra is a major orchestra of the United Kingdom, as well as one of the best-known orchestras in the world. Since 1982, the LSO has been based in London's Barbican Arts Centre....
.