David Wilde (born 1935 in

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) is an English pianist and composer. As a boy he studied with

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and his pupil Franz Reizenstein, who had also studied composition with Hindemith and

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. A frequent soloist at the Henry Wood Proms, working with such conductors as Horenstein,

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, and Downes, he shared with

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the honour of opening the BBC's second TV Channel in the North of England with Sir John Barbirolli and the Hallé Orchestra in 1962. In the same year, Wilde won the Queen’s Prize and was invited to play at the Royal Concert in the Royal Festival Hall, with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic under Sir John Pritchard, in the presence of HM Queen Elizabeth II, to whom he was afterwards presented by Sir Malcolm Sargent.Mollison, Kate. (25 January 2017
''The musical and political life of composer David Wilde''
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''. During the 1990s he composed many works protesting against

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in our time and was twice honoured by the city of

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. "The Cellist of Sarajevo", (1992) dedicated to Vedran Smailovic, was recorded by

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for

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, and the opera ''London Under Siege'', after an idea by Bosnian poet Goran Simic, was produced by the State Theatre of

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in 1998. As a pianist Wilde has won several major prizes, including a first at the

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- Bartók competition in

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in 1961.

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was a jury member and invited him to Paris for further study. "Mademoiselle", as she liked to be called, described him as "Superb performer, magnificent musician", and he remained in close touch with her for the rest of her long life. Recordings include the complete

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for violin and piano by

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with Erich Gruenberg; the Sonata for violin and piano by his teacher Reizenstein, also with Gruenberg; the Concerto by Thomas Wilson (specially composed for him); and works by

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, and Chopin. He has recorded for

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, Decca Oiseau Lyre, Lyrita Saga and CRD, and now records exclusively for Delphian Records of

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, who have already issued a recordings of music by Dallapiccola, Busoni, and Liszt, Schumann and Brahms. A

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recital was issued in 2010. Wilde was Professor of Piano at the Music Academy in

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from 1981 to 2000, and since his return to the UK in 2001 has been visiting professor in Keyboard Studies at the

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.''Concerts in the University of Edinburgh from 1841''
Reid Concert Hall.

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