Robin Field (16 September 1935 – 11 April 2024) was a British composer, a member of the Lakeland Composers group that also includes Arthur Butterworth, Gary Higginson and David Jennings. Born in

Redditch Redditch is a town and non-metropolitan district with borough status in Worcestershire, England. It is located south of Birmingham, east of Bromsgrove, north-west of Alcester and north-east of Worcester. In 2021, the town had a population of ...

, Worcestershire, Field received early tuition from Hugh Allen in

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, then studied with James Murray Brown in London and Durham, and Thomas Pitfield in Manchester. Field combined his compositional activity with a full time career as an industrial chemist. He moved to the Lake District in 1962. His worklist of over 160 compositions includes a Violin Concerto, an Oboe Concerto, the ''Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Guillaume de Machaut'' for oboe and strings (North West Arts Award, 1971), eight String Quartets, three Piano Sonatas, choral music (such as ''O Magnum Mysterium'', for mixed chorus and organ) and songs. Among the songs are several cycles, such as ''When I Was One and Twenty'' (

Housman Alfred Edward Housman (; 26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936) was an English classical scholar and poet. He showed early promise as a student at the University of Oxford, but he failed his final examination in '' literae humaniores'' and took emplo ...

) and ''A Sudden Revelation'' (Kenneth Steven).David Jennings. 'Robin Field: an obituary' at ''MusicWeb International'', 21 November, 2024
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List of works by categoryRobin Field plays ''A Song of Hope'' in 2019
{{DEFAULTSORT:Field, Robin 1935 births 2024 deaths British composers