Alexander Mackenzie
Composer
1847 – 1935
Who was Alexander Mackenzie?
Sir Alexander Campbell Mackenzie KCVO was a Scottish composer, conductor and teacher best known for his oratorios, violin and piano pieces, Scottish folk music and works for the stage.
Mackenzie was a member of a musical family and was sent for his musical education to Germany. He had many successes as a composer, producing over 90 compositions, but from 1888 to 1924, he devoted a great part of his energies to running the Royal Academy of Music. Together with Hubert Parry and Charles Villiers Stanford, he was regarded as one of the fathers of the British musical renaissance in the late nineteenth century.
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- Born
- Aug 22, 1847
Edinburgh - Also known as
- Mackenzie, Alexander
- Nationality
- Scotland
- Education
- Royal Academy of Music
- Lived in
- Edinburgh
- Died
- Apr 28, 1935
London
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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