Roy Douglas

(Richard) Roy Douglas (born 12 December 1907, Tunbridge Wells, England)^[1] is a British composer and arranger. He worked with Ralph Vaughan Williams, William Walton, and Richard Addinsell.

Works as composer

• Oboe quartet [1932]
• 2 quartets for flute, violin, viola and harp [1934/1938]
• Trio for flute, violin and viola [1935]
• Six Dance Caricatures for wind quintet [1939]
• Two Scottish Tunes for strings [1939]
• Elegy for strings [1945]
• Cantilena for strings [1957]
• Festivities and A Nowell Sequence for strings [1991]
• music for 32 radio programmes, 5 feature and 6 documentary films.

Major works as arranger or orchestrator

• Richard Addinsell: All film scores from December 1935 to January 1943 incl. Dangerous Moonlight (which contained the Warsaw Concerto)
• Frédéric Chopin: Les Sylphides
• Franz Liszt: Funérailles
• Ralph Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel

Other films to which he contributed music or orchestral arrangements – but only rarely credited – include:

• The Ghost Goes West (1935)
• Victoria the Great (1937)
• Major Barbara (1941)
• In Which We Serve (1942)
• The First of the Few (1942)
• Laurence Olivier's Henry V (1944)
• Night and Day (1946)
• Great Expectations (1946)
• The Overlanders (1946).

References

1. ^ "Library of Congress". http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83130537.html. Retrieved October 2 2011.  - source for full/variant name

• Roy Douglas by John Walton for Music Web International

External links

• Biography, potential source for re-expansion of this article
• Roy Douglas as current President of the Royal Tunbridge Wells Choral Society
• Profile by Royal Tunbridge Wells Choral Society in PDF
• Roy Douglas joins us a Vice President The Ralph Vaughan Williams Society
• Douglas, Roy Profile on Naxos website
• Roy Douglas on IMDb