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Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Edgar_Hunt > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Edgar_Hunt.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Hunt > Source revision: 1348183218 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2014}} {{use list-defined references|date=November 2014}} {{Use British English|date=November 2014}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Edgar Hubert Hunt | image = Edgar Hunt teaching at the Bate Collection.jpg | image_size = | landscape = | alt = black-and-whte photo of a very old man teaching music | caption = Teaching at a recorder workshop at the [Bate Collection](/source/Bate_Collection_of_Musical_Instruments) in Oxford in 2001 | birth_name = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | alias = | birth_date = 28 June 1909 | birth_place = [Clifton, Bristol](/source/Clifton%2C_Bristol), England | origin = | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2006|03|16|1909|06|28}} | death_place = | genre = | occupation = [Musicologist](/source/Musicologist), recorder player, teacher | instrument = | years_active = | label = | associated_acts = | website = }} '''Edgar Hubert Hunt''' (28 June 1909 – 16 March 2006) was a British musician and [musicologist](/source/musicologist). He was a key figure in the [early music revival](/source/early_music_revival) in Britain in general, and in the revival of the [recorder](/source/recorder_(musical_instrument)) in particular. He was a founding member of the [Society of Recorder Players](/source/Society_of_Recorder_Players), of which he was musical director for more than fifty years, and of the [Galpin Society](/source/Galpin_Society), of which he was later president. He was head of the early music department at [Trinity College of Music](/source/Trinity_College_of_Music), which was the first [conservatory](/source/music_school) in the world to introduce a diploma in recorder. ==Early life== Hunt was born at 2 Upper Byron Place, [Clifton, Bristol](/source/Clifton%2C_Bristol), on 28 June 1909, into a musical family. His father Hubert Hunt had since 1901 been the organist and master of choristers at [Bristol Cathedral](/source/Bristol_Cathedral), and was conductor of the Bristol Madrigal Society and musical director of the Bristol Gentlemen's Musical Club, while his mother, Clara Harriett ''née'' Clements, had been a singer and teacher of music but had given it up on her marriage. Among his father's friends were Sir [Walford Davies](/source/Walford_Davies), [Edmund Fellowes](/source/Edmund_Fellowes) and Eric Marshall Johnson. Hunt went to [Bristol Grammar School](/source/Bristol_Grammar_School) and in 1927 got a scholarship to study flute at [Trinity College of Music](/source/Trinity_College_of_Music), London, where he studied under [Albert Fransella](/source/Albert_Fransella) and [Robert Murchie](/source/Robert_Murchie). He took his diploma in 1930 but continued to attend the college until 1933; he took further lessons, and tried without success to obtain a [BMus](/source/BMus) degree from [Durham University](/source/Durham_University). From 1933 to 1936 he undertook an apprenticeship in the music printing works of the music publishing house [Novello & Co.](/source/Music_Sales_Group), and when it was over worked there for a further year. In 1937 he began working at the London branch of music publishers [Schott and Co.](/source/Schott_and_Co.) in [Great Marlborough Street](/source/Great_Marlborough_Street). ==The recorder== The director of studies at Trinity was Sir [Joseph Cox Bridge](/source/Joseph_Cox_Bridge), who had previously been organist of [Chester Cathedral](/source/Chester_Cathedral), and had in 1886 discovered in the stores of the Chester Archaeological Society a remarkable consort of recorders by [Peter Bressan](/source/Peter_Bressan), the [Chester Recorders](/source/Chester_Recorders). Through him, Hunt became interested in the instrument. He first heard it played on 2 October 1928, at a concert of the German Singers, a touring German choir which interspersed instrumental pieces by Purcell, played on recorders and strings, with the choral numbers; he was inspired by its purity of tone. ==Legacy== Hunt's collection of historic recorders is now in the [Bate Collection of Musical Instruments](/source/Bate_Collection_of_Musical_Instruments) in Oxford, together with various prototypes he made during his career as maker and designer of instruments. His papers, together with those of his father, Hubert Hunt, and his sister Enid, former archivist of the Bristol Madrigal Society, were donated by Hunt's daughter to the Centre for the History of Music in Britain, the Empire and the Commonwealth in the music department of the [University of Bristol](/source/University_of_Bristol). ==References== {{Reflist|refs= Anne Pimlott Baker (September 2010). [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/98414 Hunt, Edgar Hubert (1909–2006)]. ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', online edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. {{doi|10.1093/ref:odnb/98414}} {{subscription required}} James Hobson (2008). [http://www.bris.ac.uk/music/CHOMBEC/chombec-news-5.pdf The Edgar Hunt Estate Bequest]. ''CHOMBEC News''. Bristol: Centre for the History of Music in Britain, the Empire and the Commonwealth, Department of Music, University of Bristol. '''5''' (Summer 2008): 1–2. Hélène La Rue (2006). [https://www.jstor.org/stable/25163883 Edgar Hunt (1909–2006)] (obituary). ''The Galpin Society Journal'' '''59''' (May 2006): 288–291. {{subscription required}}[http://www.srp.org.uk/edgar-hunt/ Edgar Hubert Hunt (1909–2006)]. The Society of Recorder Players. Accessed November 2014. [Rolf Gardiner](/source/Rolf_Gardiner) (1 December 1928). [http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/1st-december-1928/11/the-german-singers-in-england The German Singers In England]. ''The Spectator''. Accessed November 2014. }} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Hunt, Edgar}} Category:1909 births Category:2006 deaths Category:British recorder players Category:Academics of Trinity College of Music Category:Alumni of Trinity College of Music Category:20th-century British flautists Category:British male flautists Category:People educated at Bristol Grammar School --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Edgar Hunt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Hunt) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Hunt?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.