English composer Richard Addinsell was born in 1904. After finishing
his law studies at Oxford, he took a short course in music at the Royal
College of Music in London and studied from 1929 to 1932 in Berlin and
Vienna. From 1933 to 1935 he lived in the USA writing scores for the
Hollywood studios.
He composed the music for the 1932 Broadway adaptation of "Alice in Wonderland", which was revived on stage in 1947, and subsequently given two different television productions, in 1955, and in 1983. Both television productions used his music.
His famous 'Warsaw Concerto', a Rachmaninoff like piece for piano and
orchestra composed for the RKO picture Suicide Squadron (1941), is still being
performed.
