Robert Crawford

(1925-2012)


Robert Crawford was a composer, musician and music producer.


 

Robert Crawford was born near Edinburgh in 1925 and was given violin lessons from the age of five. He started composing while still at school aged about fifteen. He then studied privately with Hans Gal before going to London in 1945, where he studied composition with Benjamin Frankel, taking the viola as his second study at the Guildhall School of Music. There he was awarded the Wainwright Memorial Scholarship and won the Prize of the Worshipful Company of Musicians.

Returning to Edinburgh in 1949 he wrote the String Quartet No.1 which was performed at the 1951 ISCM Festival at Frankfurt-a-M, as well as winning the prize offered by the Scottish Arts Council for a chamber work, during the Festival of Britain. This work is still in the repertoire of the Edinburgh Quartet, along with the String Quartet No.2 which was the McEwen Commission from the University of Glasgow in 1956.

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