<div id="LayerE10" class="Black_Text" style="visibility: visible; overflow: visible; width:500px; z-index:0; left:0px; top:0px; position:absolute; "> <div align="center" name="textnamecont" id="textnamecont" style="font-family : arial; font-size : 10pt; border:none; position:relative; width:100%; left:0px; top:2px; visibility:visibile; overflow:inherit; z-index:12;"> <div name="imagename" id="imagename" style="background-color:#eeeeee; color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-family:arial; font-size : 10pt; text-align:center; border:none; position:relative; width:95%; height:18px; z-index:10; overflow:inherit;"> Percy Pitt </div> </div> <br> <div align="left" name="infodisplayscroll" id="infodisplayscroll" style="font-family : arial; font-size : 10pt; border:none; position:relative; width:95%; left:20px; top:6px; visibility:visibile; overflow:inherit; z-index:10;"> <font size="1" class="Black_Text"><strong> <table style="border-collapse: collapse;" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3" bordercolor="#000000" border="0" width="460"><tbody><tr><td width="100%" valign="top"> <div><span class="DarkRed_SubHead">Percy Pitt (1870-1932)<br /> </span></div> <div> </div> <div><img height="117" width="160" title="" alt="" src="/EZ/hr/hr/imagelibrary/PercyPitt.jpg" /><br /> </div> <div><span class="Black_Text">Percy Pitt studied music at the Leipzig Conservatory before being appointed Chorus Master for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in 1906; within a year he had become first an assistant conductor and then Principal Conductor. Here, in 1908, he co-operated with Hans Richter in a highly-regarded production of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung in English; Pitt shared the conducting with Richter, who thought very highly of him (as did Sir Edward Elgar). </span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"> </span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text">He remained with the company until 1915, when he joined the Beecham Opera Company as conductor. There he remained until 1920, when he became director of the British National Opera; he stayed with that company until 1924. Also in 1924 he returned to Covent Garden, again as Principal Conductor. </span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"> </span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text">In 1926 he became General Musical Director of the BBC, remaining there until he was succeeded by Sir Adrian Boult in 1930. <br /> <br /> Pitt was the first British musician to conduct the Ring in the opera-house, preceding both Thomas Beecham and Albert Coates. His association with Richter gives special interest to his recordings of extracts from the Ring made for HMV. </span><br /> <br /> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></strong></font> </div> <br> <div align="center" style="border:none; position:relative; width:100%; left:0px; top:0px; visibility:visibile; overflow:inherit; z-index:12;"> <a href="sitemap.php?PHPSESSID=f9ndg6ovttm6506qpt0b6m7bv5" target="_self"><img border = "0" src="images/vi_returnpage.gif"></a> </div><br></div>
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