Christian Victor Noel Hope Hely-Hutchinson (26 December 1901 – 11 March 1947)[1] was a British composer, conductor, pianist and music administrator.
He was taught the piano by Dr Thomas Barrow Dowling (1861–1926), the organist of Cape Town cathedral.
[5] In England in 1910, he was taught piano by Donald Tovey and was initially educated at Heatherdown School, near Ascot in Berkshire.
In 1934, he left the BBC to become Professor of Music at the University of Birmingham, taking over from Sir Granville Bantock.
The winter of 1947 was very long-lasting and to save fuel (which was still rationed), Hely-Hutchinson refused to switch on the radiators in his office.
[8] A Symphony for small orchestra, using music reworked from some of his film scores, was heard posthumously at the Proms in 1947.
[15] His song setting of Edward Lear's "The Owl and the Pussycat" was notably recorded in 1955 by Elton Hayes[16] and featured regularly on the BBC's Children's Favourites radio show.