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CDKenneth Leighton : music for violin and piano / Kenneth Leighton, Arabella Teniswood-Harvey, Edwin Paling
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Kenneth Leighton music for Violin and Piano
Kenneth Leighton was born in Wakefield in 1929. He was educated at the Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, during which time he was a chorister at Wakefield Cathedral. In addition to singing, he was a prodigious pianist, gaining his Licentiate of the Royal College of Music at the age of fifteen.
In 1947 he attended The Queen's College, Oxford on a Hastings Scholarship in Classics. During this time he also continued his music studies with the composer Bernard Rose. In 1951 he graduated with both a BA in Classics and a BMus. In the same year he also won the Mendelssohn Scholarship and following this studied in Rome with Goffredo Petrassi.
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