Anthony Herschel Hill
{{short description|English composer}}
{{British barrelled name|Herschel Hill|Hill}}
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Anthony Nelson Herschel Hill (1939 – 22 July 2016) was an English musician, composer, and professor of music. During his lifetime, Herschel Hill composed some 24 symphonies and 14 concertos.{{cite news |author= |date=1 December 2017 |title=Busoni, Satie, Debussy, Casella, Poulenc - Music for Piano Duo |url=https://www.radiotimescds.com/classical/135223/Busoni,_Satie,_Debussy,_Casella,_Poulenc_-_Music_for_Piano_Duo.htm |work=Radio Times |location=Europadisc Limited |access-date=5 March 2023}}
Early life and education
Anthony Nelson Herschel Hill was born in 1939 in Shrewsbury, England,[https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/composers/21587--herschel-hill Anthony Herschel Hill (Composer)] at Presto Music to the eminent psychiatrist Sir Denis Hill.[https://whitehorsemusic.com.au/hill-anthony-herschel-two-pieces-for-viola-and-piano/ Hill, Anthony Herschel: Two Pieces for Viola and Piano] at Whitehorse[https://d2me0q24x7p585.cloudfront.net/748871017825.pdf Anthony Herschel Hill] at VIRTUOSO PIANO TRANSCRIPTIONS He is a descendant of the astronomer and composer Sir William Herschel.[https://shop.abrsm.org/shop/prod/2013608 Four pieces for Double Bass and Piano] at ABRSM[https://somm-recordings.com/composer/anthony-herschel-hill/ Anthony Herschel Hill Recordings] at SOMM Recordings
Herschel Hill studied at the Royal College of Music as a pianist, organist, and composer, for which he won several of the major prizes. While there, he studied with the musician composers Herbert Howells, Richard Latham, and Cyril Smith. After further study in Paris with French musician Nadia Boulanger and tutoring with Hungarian musician Louis Kentner, he began his career as a musician and teacher.[https://issuu.com/gylgerddbangormusicfestival/docs/gwyl_gerdd_bangor_music_festival_20 Rhaglen / Programme: Gŵyl Gerdd Bangor Music Festival 2011] at Issuu
Career
Herschel Hill has composed for piano, organ, and choir.[https://issuu.com/royalcollegeofmusic/docs/upbeat_spring_2017 Upbeat Spring 2017] at Issuu He has played concertos with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Philharmonia. He has also performed a number of solo recitals across the United Kingdom, France, Singapore, and New Zealand. As a composer, several of his pieces have appeared on the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM) exam lists and on BBC Radio 3.[https://www.amazon.com/s?i=popular&rh=p_32%3AAnthony+Herschel+Hill&ref=dp_byline_sr_music_6 Anthony Herschel Hill] at Amazon
In 1982, Herschel Hill published two albums with the classical sheet music publisher Stainer & Bell: Four pieces for cello and piano and Two pieces for viola and piano. He wrote an additional album for them – O ye that love the Lord : trebles and organ – in 1986. That same year, he wrote two albums for the publisher Fraser-Enoch: Soliloquy for piano and Contrasts for piano.
He was a teacher of music at Bishop's Stortford College in Hertfordshire. By 1986, he was director of music at St Simon Zelotes Church in London,[https://www.jstor.org/stable/964730 Robert Ramsey's Latin Sacred Music] at JSTOR a position he held for more than a quarter of a century.
Herschel Hill has written a number of liturgical works. He wrote Ave Verum Corpus in 1990 for Prebendary John Pearce and the choir of St Simon Zelotes Church.[https://www.stretta-music.com/hill-ave-verum-corpus-nr-929514.html Ave Verum Corpus] at Stretta Music
Personal life
In 1964, Herschel Hill married Joan Havill, a New Zealand pianist, with whom he had studied at the Royal College of Music, in Kensington, London.[http://composers-classical-music.com/h/HillAnthonyHerschel.htm Hill, Anthony N Herschel]
Death
Herschel Hill died on 22 July 2016 in the City of London. His funeral was held on 10 August at St Marylebone Crematorium in East Finchley, London.[https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thetimes-uk/obituary.aspx?n=anthony-nelson-herschel-hill&pid=180774874 Anthony Nelson Herschel HILL] at The Times through Legacy.com Following his death, Radio Times wrote that his "true worth" was "yet to be fully appreciated."
Discography
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| scope="col"| Year
! scope="col"| Album ! scope="col"| Publisher ! scope="col" class="unsortable"| Notes ! scope="col" class="unsortable"| {{abbr|Ref(s)|Reference(s)}} |
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| 1980
! scope="row" | Man shall be free | Banks Music | |
| 1981
! scope="row" | Toccata eroica | Robertson Publications | |
| rowspan=2|1982
! scope="row" | Four pieces for cello and piano | |
| scope="row" | Two pieces for viola and piano
| Stainer & Bell | |
| 1985
! scope="row" | Toccata | | |
| rowspan=3|1986
! scope="row" | O ye that love the Lord : trebles and organ | Stainer & Bell | |
| scope="row" | Soliloquy for piano
| Fraser-Enoch | |
| scope="row" | Contrasts for piano
| Fraser-Enoch | |
| 1990
! scope="row" | Ave Verum Corpus | | [https://stainer.co.uk/shop/w182/ Hill, Anthony Herschel: Ave Verum Corpus] ISMN: 9790220207617 |
| 1992
! scope="row" | Litany | | | [https://www.walmart.com/ip/Colour-Light/793200936 Colour and Light] at Walmart |
| 2010
! scope="row" | Piano: Beethoven, Schumann, A.Herschel Hill, P.Martin, Rachmaninoff | Caroline Clipsham | | [https://music.apple.com/us/album/piano-beethoven-schumann-a-herschel-hill-p-martin/499131541 Piano: Beethoven, Schumann, A.Herschel Hill, P.Martin, Rachmaninoff] on Apple Music |
| 2017
! scope="row" | Piano Duo | Somm Recordings | |
| 2023
! scope="row" | Man Shall Be Free | Posthumous |
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