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Composer
282 episodes
Chosen over the decades
282
Total castaways
1980s
Peak decade
8
Decades seen
Castaways who chose this
Earl of Harewood on worrying his royal bargaining power as a POW was a bluff
Frederick Ashton on being riveted by Anna Pavlova's performance aged 13
Catherine Gaskin on practicing piano at her teacher's house every morning at 7:30
How a hateful meeting at the Musicians' Union made Antal Dorati leave Germany
John Hackett on escaping German-occupied Holland in a canoe at dawn
How shooting partridges got Geoffrey Household a job at the Ottoman Bank
Claudio Abbado on deciding to become a conductor at age seven after hearing his first concert at La Scala
Clifford Curzon on his first paid performance in a freezing Kennington church
How 13 episodes of a television series made Robert Hardy wish for a desert island
Amadeus String Quartet on their debut concert that turned people away
Richard Adams on improvising Watership Down on a car journey to see Judi Dench's Viola
How Barry Tuckwell joined the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra as third horn at 15
Michael Holroyd on arguing so persuasively his father told him to profit from it
Christopher Milne on the weekly moment his singing voice dominated in chapel