Landon Ronald

Sir Landon Ronald (born June 7, 1873 in London, died August 14, 1938) was an English conductor, music teacher and composer.

The son of the singer and composer Henry Russell studied from 1884 to 1890 at the Royal College of Music & a. at Charles Villiers Stanford and Hubert Parry. Already seventeen years he debuted as a conductor at the Lyric Theater in London. He became a pianist at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden and conductor of the tour ensemble of Augustus Harris. In 1894 he accompanied the singer Nellie Melba on a tour through the USA.

In 1896 he conducted Gounod's Faust in Covent Garden. Between 1898 and 1902 he conducted operettas in London's West End and gave concerts in Blackpool during the summer. In 1900 Fred Gaisberg became a musical consultant to his The Gramophone Company, which from 1909 called His Master's Voice. The collaboration resulted in numerous recordings with the singers Adelina Patti and Nellie Melba.

From 1904, Ronald led the London Symphony Orchestra, with whom he played the premiere of Edward Elgar's First Symphony in Rome in 1909; this later devoted him to his Falstaff. From 1909 to 1928, he directed the New Symphony Orchestra, founded by Thomas Beecham (since 1915 Royal Albert Hall Orchestra), the first symphony orchestra in England to have a record contract (with the Grammophon Company).

He also conducted the Royal Scottish National Orchestra between 1916 and 1920, acting as a guest conductor of the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. From 1910 to his death, he directed the Guildhall School of Music. In 1922 he was elevated to the aristocracy. Ronald composed more than 200 songs, including the Serenade espagnole, recorded by Enrico Caruso on record. His older brother Henry Ronald Russell (1871-1937) was an opernimpresario, half-brother William Clark Russell from the first marriage of his father was known as a novellist. Standard data (person): GND: 134644786 (PICA, AKS) | LCCN: n82059381 VIAF: 37103312 | Wikipedia People Search

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