Neville Marriner died

On October 2, at the age of 92, the British conductor and violinist Neville Marriner died.

This was reported by the website of the Chamber Orchestra "Academy of St. Martin in the fields" , the founder and lifelong president of which he was.

Neville Marriner was born in 1924 in Lincoln. He studied at the Royal Music College in London (in 1948 he became a professor there) and in the Paris Conservatory (class of violin Rene Benedetti). As the violinist performed with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra, worked with Arturo Tuscanini, Wilhelm Furtwengler, Herbert von Karayan. I studied conducting art in the USA at Pierre Monte.

In 1958, Neville Marriner created in London the chamber orchestra “The Academy of St. Martin in the fields”, the name of which comes from the church on Trafalgar Square, where the orchestra gave its first concert in the fall of 1959. The “Academy of St. Martin in the fields” played a key role in the revival of the performance of Baroque music in England. The orchestra also performed and recorded the music of other eras, participated in the creation of soundtracks of films such as “English patient” (1996), “Titanic” (1997) and “Amadeus” (1984).

In addition, Marriner was the founder and musical director of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (1969–1978), the musical director of the Minnesota orchestra (1979–1986), the chief conductor of the Symphonic Orchestra of the Stuttgart Radio (1986–1989), performed with many other orchestras.

In 2011, Marriner handed over the musical leadership of the St. Martin Academy in the fields of Joshua Bellu, but continued concert performances, becoming the oldest conductor in the history of the BBC Proms festival in 2014 at the age of 90.