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Jul 05, 1895 London Died on 08 Jun 1984 (aged 88)
English composer
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About Gordon Jacob
- Gordon Percival Septimus Jacob CBE (5 July 1895 – 8 June 1984) was an English composer and teacher.
- He was a professor at the Royal College of Music in London from 1924 until his retirement in 1966, and published four books and many articles about music.
- As a composer he was prolific: the list of his works totals more than 700, mostly compositions of his own, but a substantial minority of orchestrations and arrangements of other composers' works.
- Those whose music he orchestrated range from William Byrd to Edward Elgar to Noël Coward.
