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Leonard Salzedo

vn, 1921-2000 GB
Musician / Composer / Conductor of Classical

Leonard Salzedo (24 September 1921 – 6 May 2000) was an English composer and conductor of Spanish descent.Salzedo was born in London. He studied composition under Herbert Howells and violin under Isolde Menges at the Royal College of Music in London, before becoming a professional composer in 1944. He worked closely with the Ballet Rambert, for whom his first ballet, The Fugitive, was commissioned. His most successful ballet was The Witch Boy based on the ‘Ballad of Barbara Allan’.Salzedo died in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, aged 78.