David Bedford

English composer and musician

David Vickerman Bedford (4 August 1937 – 1 October 2011) was an English composer and musician. He wrote and played both popular and classical music. He was the brother of the conductor Steuart Bedford, the grandson of the composer, painter and author Herbert Bedford and the composer Liza Lehmann, and the son of Leslie Bedford, an inventor, and Lesley Duff, a soprano opera singer.

From 1969 to 1981, Bedford was Composer in Residence at Queen's College, London. From 1968 to 1980, he taught music in a number of London secondary schools. In 1996 he was appointed Composer in Association with the English Sinfonia. In 2001 he was appointed Chairman of the Performing Right Society, having previously been Deputy chairman.

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Works

Alleluia Timpanis
Among Us
An Extract From Star’s End
Be Music, Night
Come in Here Child
Dreams of Stac Pollaidh
Even Now
Finale
First Came the Lion Rider
First Excursion
Fridiof Kennings
Instructions for Angels
It’s Easier Than It Looks
King Aeolus
Music for Albion Moonlight
Nurses Song With Elephants
Of Stars, Dreams and Cymbals
Recorder Concerto
Recorder Concerto: I.
Recorder Concerto: II.
Recorder Concerto: III.
Recorder Concerto: IV.
Recorder Concerto: V.
Sad and Lonely Faces
Some Bright Stars for Queen’s College
Star Clusters, Nebulae and Places in Devon
Star’s End
Sun Paints Rainbows on the Vast Waves
Symphony no. 1
Symphony no. 1: I. Introduction - Allegro
Symphony no. 1: II. Adagio
Symphony no. 1: III. Presto
The Dazzling Burden
The Golden Wine is Drunk
The Phaeacian Games
The Year Zero
Theme
Trona
Twelve Hours of Sunset
Two Poems for Chorus on Words of Kenneth Patchen
Two Poems for Chorus on Words of Kenneth Patchen: 1. O Now the Drenched Land Wakes
Two Poems for Chorus on Words of Kenneth Patchen: 2. The Great Birds
Variations on "Sumer is icumen in": David Bedford
Wanderers of the Pale Wood