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FREDERIC CURZON

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at the BBC Theatre Organ
Although Frederic Curzon has been a cinema organist for eighteen years, he is probably better known to listeners as a composer of light orchestral music. During the past six years there have been over one thousand broadcast performances of his compositions.
Curzon is London-born, and his father was a keen amateur musician. As a very young boy he begged for a violin, and, after studying the piano as well, became accompanist at all his parents' musical evenings. He was one of the first to play a cinema organ, and was with Gaumont-British for twelve years.
In March last year he left the New Victoria Cinema to devote himself to composition. His best-known composition is his suite ' In Malaga

Bal masqué - Fletcher
Quiet Fields - Ewing
Fairy Footsteps - Barclay Wilson
Let's Begin Again - Rothberg
Love in Arcady - Haydn Wood
Serenade of a Clown - Frederic Curzon
Selection, The Count of Luxemburg - Lehdr

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Frederic Curzon

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