Walter Goehr Germany Film Music Composer BBC Orchestra Hand Signed Letter

CHAU4775 A rare opportunity to secure the autograph of famous composer and musician Walter Goehr on this antique 1947 letter specially typed sent on headed BBC paper with fascinating content which I invite you to enlarge and read.  It is personally written typed and hand signed by Walter Goehr and bar one light fold where originally posted is absolutely mint condition. Please see all our historic BBC musicians, orchestra leaders and composers secured from this same BBC collection at our store.

"...Walter Goehr (28 May 1903 – 4 December 1960) was a German composer and conductor who from 1937, lived and worked in the UK. He was the father of composer Alexander Goehr. I n England he worked for the Columbia Record Company, and between 1945 and 1948 was conductor of the BBC Theatre Orchestra (the predecessor of today's BBC Concert Orchestra); he was also a skilled arranger. In January 1946, he conducted the orchestra for the premiere performance of Louis MacNeice's radio play The Dark Tower, with music by Benjamin Britten, on the BBC Home Service.   In 1942, he made a new arrangement of Mussorgsky's piano suite Pictures at an Exhibition with a subsidiary piano part. In 1946, he arranged a number of Mussorgsky's piano pieces into the orchestral suite Pictures from the Crimea. In 1946, Goehr composed the music for the muchacclaimed film Great Expectations, directed by David Lean. He wrote several other film scores. He was also well known for conducting film soundtracks, including A Canterbury Tale, for which his friend Allan Gray had composed the score..."