Malcolm Arnold
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Emerging from a musically inclined shoemaking family in Northampton, the youngest of five, he took up trumpet at twelve after hearing Louis Armstrong and earned a Royal College of Music scholarship, where Gordon Jacob taught him composition and Ernest Hall his trumpet. After serving as second and then principal trumpet with the London Philharmonic and a stint with the BBC Symphony, he turned fully…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources