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Leonard Salzedo 1921-2000
24 September 1921 to 6 May 2000 Composer of over 150 works from his 20s when a student at the Royal College of Music into his final years. Since his death, concerts & recordings have continued. The Leonard Salzedo Society has more planned for this and future years. YouTube See the film about him Leonard Salzedo…
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Leonard Salzedo and the Nutcracker
My father Leonard Salzedo was a student at Royal College of Music (RCM) in the 1940s and I was delighted to watch this 2024 RCM Christmas video with highlights of the Nutcracker arranged by and for RCM students, because both the RCM Concert Hall and the Nutcracker had a particular significance for my father. The…
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24 years ago
On 6th May 2000, 24 years ago, my father Leonard Salzedo died at home in Leighton Buzzard, his wife Pat with him. He was cremated on 15th May at Crown Hill Crematorium Milton Keynes, a well-attended funeral, where Ann Hooley, violinist, played from Leonard’s Partita for solo violin, and she and Elizabeth Turnbull, violist, played…
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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.…
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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…
LEONARD SALZEDO SOCIETY 