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Anthony Herschel Hill
Birth Name:Anthony Nelson Herschel Hill
Birth Date:1939
Birth Place:Shrewsbury, England
Death Place:City of London, London, England
Alma Mater:Royal College of Music
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Anthony Nelson Herschel Hill (1939 – 22 July 2016) was an English musician, composer, and professor of music. During his lifetime, Herschel Hill composed some 24 symphonies and 14 concertos.[1]

Early life and education

Anthony Nelson Herschel Hill was born in 1939 in Shrewsbury, England,[2] to the eminent psychiatrist Sir Denis Hill.[3] [4] He is a descendant of the astronomer and composer Sir William Herschel.[5] [6]

Herschel Hill studied at the Royal College of Music as a pianist, organist, and composer, for which he won several of the major prizes. While there, he studied with the musician composers Herbert Howells, Richard Latham, and Cyril Smith. After further study in Paris with French musician Nadia Boulanger and tutoring with Hungarian musician Louis Kentner, he began his career as a musician and teacher.[7] [4]

Career

Herschel Hill has composed for piano, organ, and choir.[8] He has played concertos with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Philharmonia. He has also performed a number of solo recitals across the United Kingdom, France, Singapore, and New Zealand. As a composer, several of his pieces have appeared on the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM) exam lists and on BBC Radio 3.[7] [9]

In 1982, Herschel Hill published two albums with the classical sheet music publisher Stainer & Bell: Four pieces for cello and piano and Two pieces for viola and piano. He wrote an additional album for them – O ye that love the Lord : trebles and organ – in 1986. That same year, he wrote two albums for the publisher Fraser-Enoch: Soliloquy for piano and Contrasts for piano.

He was a teacher of music at Bishop's Stortford College in Hertfordshire. By 1986, he was director of music at St Simon Zelotes Church in London,[10] [7] a position he held for more than a quarter of a century.[4]

Herschel Hill has written a number of liturgical works. He wrote Ave Verum Corpus in 1990 for Prebendary John Pearce and the choir of St Simon Zelotes Church.[11]

Personal life

In 1964, Herschel Hill married Joan Havill, a New Zealand pianist, with whom he had studied at the Royal College of Music, in Kensington, London.[12]

Death

Herschel Hill died on 22 July 2016 in the City of London. His funeral was held on 10 August at St Marylebone Crematorium in East Finchley, London.[13] Following his death, Radio Times wrote that his "true worth" was "yet to be fully appreciated."[1]

Discography

YearAlbumPublisherNotes
1980Man shall be freeBanks Music[14]
1981Toccata eroicaRobertson Publications[15]
1982Four pieces for cello and pianoStainer & Bell[16]
Two pieces for viola and pianoStainer & Bell[17]
1985Toccata
1986O ye that love the Lord : trebles and organStainer & Bell[18]
Soliloquy for pianoFraser-Enoch[19]
Contrasts for pianoFraser-Enoch[20]
1990Ave Verum CorpusStainer & Bell[21]
1992Litany[22]
2010Piano: Beethoven, Schumann, A.Herschel Hill, P.Martin, RachmaninoffCaroline Clipsham[23]
2017Piano DuoSomm Recordings
2023Man Shall Be FreeG&L MusicalPosthomous

Notes and References

  1. News: . 1 December 2017 . Busoni, Satie, Debussy, Casella, Poulenc - Music for Piano Duo . . Europadisc Limited . 5 March 2023.
  2. https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/composers/21587--herschel-hill Anthony Herschel Hill (Composer)
  3. https://whitehorsemusic.com.au/hill-anthony-herschel-two-pieces-for-viola-and-piano/ Hill, Anthony Herschel: Two Pieces for Viola and Piano
  4. https://d2me0q24x7p585.cloudfront.net/748871017825.pdf Anthony Herschel Hill
  5. https://shop.abrsm.org/shop/prod/2013608 Four pieces for Double Bass and Piano
  6. https://somm-recordings.com/composer/anthony-herschel-hill/ Anthony Herschel Hill Recordings
  7. https://issuu.com/gylgerddbangormusicfestival/docs/gwyl_gerdd_bangor_music_festival_20 Rhaglen / Programme: Gŵyl Gerdd Bangor Music Festival 2011
  8. https://issuu.com/royalcollegeofmusic/docs/upbeat_spring_2017 Upbeat Spring 2017
  9. https://www.amazon.com/s?i=popular&rh=p_32%3AAnthony+Herschel+Hill&ref=dp_byline_sr_music_6 Anthony Herschel Hill
  10. https://www.jstor.org/stable/964730 Robert Ramsey's Latin Sacred Music
  11. https://www.stretta-music.com/hill-ave-verum-corpus-nr-929514.html Ave Verum Corpus
  12. http://composers-classical-music.com/h/HillAnthonyHerschel.htm Hill, Anthony N Herschel
  13. https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thetimes-uk/obituary.aspx?n=anthony-nelson-herschel-hill&pid=180774874 Anthony Nelson Herschel HILL
  14. https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2001316?lookfor=author:%22Hill,%20Anthony%20Herschel%22&offset=5&max=7 Man shall be free : Christmas carol for SSA and piano / words by A.J. Featherstone ; music by Anthony Herschel Hill
  15. https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2007237?lookfor=author:%22Hill,%20Anthony%20Herschel%22&offset=4&max=7 Toccata eroica / Anthony Herschel Hill
  16. https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2119056?lookfor=author:%22Hill,%20Anthony%20Herschel%22&offset=2&max=7 Four pieces for cello and piano / Anthony Herschel Hill
  17. https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/484790?lookfor=author:%22Hill,%20Anthony%20Herschel%22&offset=6&max=7 Two pieces for viola and piano / Anthony Herschel Hill
  18. https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1811336?lookfor=author:%22Hill,%20Anthony%20Herschel%22&offset=1&max=7 O ye that love the Lord : trebles and organ / Anthony Herschel Hill
  19. https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1836160?lookfor=author:%22Hill,%20Anthony%20Herschel%22&offset=3&max=7 Soliloquy for piano / by Anthony Herschel Hill
  20. https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1836131?lookfor=author:%22Hill,%20Anthony%20Herschel%22&offset=7&max=7 Contrasts for piano / by Anthony Herschel Hill
  21. https://stainer.co.uk/shop/w182/ Hill, Anthony Herschel: Ave Verum Corpus
  22. https://www.walmart.com/ip/Colour-Light/793200936 Colour and Light
  23. https://music.apple.com/us/album/piano-beethoven-schumann-a-herschel-hill-p-martin/499131541 Piano: Beethoven, Schumann, A.Herschel Hill, P.Martin, Rachmaninoff