Composer
Elgar Howarth
English conductor, composer and trumpeter (1935–2025)
1935–2025
2 works and musical collections
- Born
- 1935
- Died
- 2025
- Birthplace
- Cannock
- Place of death
- Cannock
- Citizenship / historical state
- United Kingdom
- Period (estimated from birth year)
- Contemporary
Biography
Elgar Howarth (4 November 1935 – 13 January 2025) was an English conductor, composer and trumpeter. Grove noted that "his performances are marked by powerful concentration and a clear communication of sometimes complex scores".
Howarth's career bridged the worlds of modernist classical music and traditional British brass bands. He conducted many world premieres, including Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre and four operas by Harrison Birtwistle. He composed mainly music for brass instruments and brass bands, some under the pseudonym W. Hogarth Lear. As a player, he was one of the trumpeters who performed with the Beatles on the song "Magical Mystery Tour". The author of a feature article about Howarth in 1999 wrote that "as trumpeter, composer and conductor, he has featured in many of the important musical developments in the UK and beyond over the past 40 years".
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Life and musical career
- Instruments played
- trumpet
- Genres
- classical music
- Languages used
- English
- VIAF ID
- 64192060
- ISNI
- 0000000114462298
- GND ID
- 12433542X
- Library of Congress ID
- n82028114
- MusicBrainz ID
- d75b1a80-3d1f-4a6a-903a-a8c4627a5028
Recorded in Wikidata. Affiliations may refer to earlier stages of the composer's career.
In this catalogue
- Common listed instruments
- Horn, Trumpet
- Source entries with composition dates
- 0
These details describe the indexed sheet music, including arrangements.
Catalogue
Sheet music catalogue
Instruments describe listed editions, including arrangements. Composition dates and keys appear where recorded; collection pages show their individual contents.
| Title | Work details | Listed instruments | Sheet music |
|---|---|---|---|
| Four Swiss Tunes | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| Suite For Brass (Howarth) | See work details |
| View sheet music |
Biographical record: Wikidata, matched on name and checked against dates held in the catalogue. The period label is an estimate from birth year. Authority record: VIAF 64192060. Portrait: Tom Yates at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.