Philip Radcliffe

Philip FitzHugh Radcliffe (27 April 1905 – 2 September 1986) was an English academic, musicologist and composer, born in Godalming, Surrey.

"I attended evensong in the Chapel of my future College and can still recall the impact made upon me by the quiet, other-world sound of the choir singing Remember, O thou man.

His pupils included Philip Brett, Winton Dean, Jeremy Dibble,[4] Peter Dickinson, Sebastian Forbes and Richard Lloyd.

[5] His academic writings included the books Mendelssohn (1954), Beethoven's String Quartets (1965), Schubert Piano Sonatas (BBC Music Guide, 1967), a biography of John Ireland (1954), E.J.

[12] His incidental music for the Cambridge Greek Plays included Clouds[13] (Aristophanes, 1962) Oedipus Tyrannus[14] (1965), Medea[15] (Euripides, 1974), and Electra[16] (Sophocles, 1977).