AS TOLD TO
Organist, conductor and piano teacher Malcolm Rudland is the honorary secretary of the Peter Warlock Society. He explains how he got into music and why Warlock – who lived at a string of addresses in Chelsea and died in Tite Street in 1930 – was such a special composer
The magic of Warlock “
MY MOTHER WAS HUNGARIAN, and she died when I was two, and all I knew about her was that she played the piano. I think that’s why I’m a musician. I had piano lessons when I was about five or six with a friend of my adopted aunt, but it wasn’t until I went to boarding school and I saw this huge organ – of course it’s a teeny little thing now – that I said I wanted to capture and make those sounds. We used to see it for prayers every morning and by that stage I could almost play hymns, so I became one of the organists.
When I left school, I went to work in a bank – my father was very concerned that I had a steady job – and I had lessons with Donald Hunt at Leeds Parish Church. I trained as a teacher at St Paul’s Cheltenham, taught at Cirencester School, and then I got into the Royal Academy of Music to do a
B.Mus. I’ve been freelance since 1970.
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