biography
| name: |
Boult, Sir Adrian (Cedric)
|
pronunciation:
[bohlt]
| sex:
| male
|
| lived:
| (1889–1983)
|
| biography:
| Conductor, born in Chester, Cheshire, NW England, UK. After studying at Oxford and Leipzig, he conducted the City of Birmingham Orchestra (1924–30), and was then appointed musical director of the BBC and conductor of the newly formed BBC Symphony Orchestra. After his retirement from broadcasting in 1950, he was conductor-in-chief of the London Philharmonic Orchestra until 1957, and continued to conduct regularly until 1981. He was knighted in 1937. |
|
|
