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Composer, conductor
A.K.A.
Mark Hugh Lubbock
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Male
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Birth:
1898
Death:
1986
Education:
Eton College
Eton, Windsor and Maidenhead, United Kingdom
Employers:
BBC
United Kingdom
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The details
Biography
Introduction
Mark Hugh Lubbock (1898–1986) was a British conductor and composer, especially of light music.
life
Born in 1898, he was educated at Eton College, and then studied in Vienna. He also served in World War I.
Lubbock and Harry S. Pepper were both recruited by the BBC in 1933, both being noted as "established composers of light music", and Lubbock was the BBC's Light Music Conductor from 1933 to 1944. His operetta The King Can Do No Wrong was the first to be commissioned and broadcast by the BBC.
He appeared as a "castaway" on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 15 June 1974.
His wife was the author Bea Howe.