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Robert Matthew-Walker (born 23 July 1939) is an English composer, writer, editing marketer and broadcaster, mainly involved in classical music.
Robert Matthew-Walker was born in Lewisham, London, and studied at Goldsmiths College; the University of London, the London College of Music, and the London College of Printing (now University of the Arts, London). After leaving the Army in 1962, following service at the Joint Air Reconnaissance Intelligence Centre (JARIC), the War Office, and in North Africa, he studied composition privately with the French composer Darius Milhaud in Paris in 1962–63.[ citation needed ]
He was employed in the City as Company Secretary of Thom & Cook Ltd and founded the Tunnel Club rock venue in Greenwich in 1968. In 1970, he joined the CBS Records and was appointed head of their classical department in London three months later. In 1974 he became Director of Marketing for CBS. He was later Director of Masterworks Marketing, Europe, for CBS in Paris.[ citation needed ]
In 1975, he joined RCA Records in London as Head of the Classical Department.[ citation needed ]
He founded several specialist classical labels, including Phoenix Records, Trax Records, and AVM Classics. Matthew-Walker has produced over 130 albums and won the Grand Prix du Disque of the Academie Charles Cros in 1980 for his recording of Brian Ferneyhough's Sonatas for String Quartet by the Berne String Quartet (the first recording of any of Ferneyhough's works), amongst several other recording awards for his work as a producer. He compiled the first two series of '100 Greatest Classics' for Filmtrax, and for Stylus 'The Pavarotti Collection' (reissued by Decca as 'The Essential Pavarotti') which sold over 600,000 copies and reached no. 8 in the pop album charts. He also appeared with the disco rapper Adamski on a dance single, 'Kraktali Daze'.
Robert Matthew-Walker was a member of The Critics' Circle. From 1984 to 1988 he edited the magazine Music and Musicians , and between 1996 and 2008, the UK Grieg Society's journal The Grieg Companion (Vols 1–12). In April 2009, he became the editor of Musical Opinion and its sister-publication, The Organ ; he is also a contributor to Classic Record Collector . [1] He has broadcast many times, and in 1980, he wrote and presented an eight-part History of Classical Recording for BBC Radio. He has published sixteen books, not all of them on musical subjects, and in total has sold half a million copies. He has also been a Fellow of the Atlantic Council of Great Britain.[ citation needed ]
As a composer, his output includes six symphonies (1956-68), the Symphonic Variations for Orchestra (1955), concertos for flute, horn, oboe and cello, four string quartets and various violin and piano sonatas. Works such as Days To Remember, Three Pieces for Rock Band (1966), and the Meditation on the Death of Elvis Presley (1980) indicate an interest in rock music. [2]
Edvard Hagerup Grieg was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is widely considered one of the leading Romantic era composers, and his music is part of the standard classical repertoire worldwide. His use of Norwegian folk music in his own compositions brought the music of Norway to fame, as well as helping to develop a national identity, much as Jean Sibelius did in Finland and Bedřich Smetana in Bohemia.
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String Quartet No. 1 may refer to:
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