LEONARD SALZEDO SOCIETY

Author: lsssecretary

  • ‘Modern music is rubbish!’

    A Concert in 1943 In defiance of the Second World War, cultural events carried on in London and were well-attended, and so in July 1943 at a Concert organised by the Society for the Promotion of New Music (SPNM) (now called Sound and Music), Leonard Salzedo‘s 2nd String Quartet was premiered. Students Leonard Salzedo and Neville…

  • Leonard Salzedo’s Sephardic heritage

    The Sephardic Community of Spain The Sephardic Jewish community was expelled from Spain in 1492 and, after a brief time in Portugal, many settled in Amsterdam. Salzedo’s Grandparents Leonard Salzedo’s grandparents, Jacob Lopes Salzedo and Angela Mendes da Costa, emigrated from Amsterdam to London in the 1850s, drawn to the richest city in the world.…

  • Leonard Salzedo

    Leonard Salzedo

    My dad My dad Leonard Salzedo was a composer and I really like his music So much so that last year for the Centenary of his birth I made a film Leonard Salzedo A Life Composed in Music which is on YouTube Leonard Salzedo Centenary plus One Celebration Concert on Saturday 24th September 2022 6pm…