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Anthony Nelson Herschel Hill (1939 – 22 July 2016) was an English musician, composer, and professor of music. During his lifetime, Herschel Hill composed some 24 symphonies and 14 concertos.

Early life and education

Anthony Nelson Herschel Hill was born in 1939 in Shrewsbury, England, to the eminent psychiatrist Sir Denis Hill. He is a descendant of the astronomer and composer Sir William Herschel.

Herschel Hill studied at the Royal College of Music as a pianist, organist, and composer, for which he won several of the major prizes. While there, he studied with the musician composers Herbert Howells, Richard Latham, and Cyril Smith. After further study in Paris with French musician Nadia Boulanger and tutoring with Hungarian musician Louis Kentner, he began his career as a musician and teacher.

Career

Herschel Hill has composed for piano, organ, and choir. He has played concertos with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Philharmonia. He has also performed a number of solo recitals across the United Kingdom, France, Singapore, and New Zealand. As a composer, several of his pieces have appeared on the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM) exam lists and on BBC Radio 3.

In 1982, Herschel Hill published two albums with the classical sheet music publisher Stainer & Bell: Four pieces for cello and piano and Two pieces for viola and piano. He wrote an additional album for them – O ye that love the Lord : trebles and organ – in 1986. That same year, he wrote two albums for the publisher Fraser-Enoch: Soliloquy for piano and Contrasts for piano.

He was a teacher of music at Bishop's Stortford College in Hertfordshire. By 1986, he was director of music at St Simon Zelotes Church in London, a position he held for more than a quarter of a century.

Herschel Hill has written a number of liturgical works. He wrote Ave Verum Corpus in 1990 for Prebendary John Pearce and the choir of St Simon Zelotes Church.

Personal life

In 1964, Herschel Hill married Joan Havill, a New Zealand pianist, with whom he had studied at the Royal College of Music, in Kensington, London.

Death

Herschel Hill died on 22 July 2016 in the City of London. His funeral was held on 10 August at St Marylebone Crematorium in East Finchley, London. Following his death, Radio Times wrote that his "true worth" was "yet to be fully appreciated."

Discography

References

1. ^ "Busoni, Satie, Debussy, Casella, Poulenc - Music for Piano Duo". Radio Times. Europadisc Limited. 1 December 2017. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
2. Anthony Herschel Hill (Composer) at Presto Music
3. Hill, Anthony Herschel: Two Pieces for Viola and Piano at Whitehorse
4. ^ Anthony Herschel Hill at VIRTUOSO PIANO TRANSCRIPTIONS
5. Four pieces for Double Bass and Piano at ABRSM
6. Anthony Herschel Hill Recordings at SOMM Recordings
7. ^ Rhaglen / Programme: Gŵyl Gerdd Bangor Music Festival 2011 at Issuu
8. Upbeat Spring 2017 at Issuu
9. Anthony Herschel Hill at Amazon
10. ^ Four pieces for cello and piano / Anthony Herschel Hill
11. ^ Soliloquy for piano / by Anthony Herschel Hill
12. ^ Hill, Anthony N Herschel
13. Robert Ramsey's Latin Sacred Music at JSTOR
14. ^ Hill, Anthony Herschel: Ave Verum Corpus ISMN: 9790220207617
15. Ave Verum Corpus at Stretta Music
16. Anthony Nelson Herschel HILL at The Times through Legacy.com
17. Man shall be free : Christmas carol for SSA and piano / words by A.J. Featherstone ; music by Anthony Herschel Hill
18. Toccata eroica / Anthony Herschel Hill
19. ^ Two pieces for viola and piano / Anthony Herschel Hill
20. O ye that love the Lord : trebles and organ / Anthony Herschel Hill
21. Contrasts for piano / by Anthony Herschel Hill
22. Colour and Light at Walmart
23. ^ Piano: Beethoven, Schumann, A.Herschel Hill, P.Martin, Rachmaninoff on Apple Music
24. Anthony_Herschel_Hill discography at Discogs

• 1939 births
• 2016 deaths
• People from Shrewsbury
• English classical pianists
• English classical organists
• 20th-century English composers
• 21st-century English composers
• English Christian hymnwriters
• Alumni of the Royal College of Music
• Academics of the Royal College of Music