Collingwood, Lawrance (1887-1982)

English conductor and composer. He was chorister at Westminster Abbey, London, and organ scholar at Exeter College, Oxford; he lived in Russia for a time and worked with Albert Coates at the St Petersburg Opera; he married there and returned to England during the Revolution. He was principal conductor at Sadler's Wells, London, 1931-46, and conducted the UK first performances of Rimsky-Korsakov's Snow Maiden (1933) and The Tale of Tsar Saltan (1937).

Works the opera Macbeth (1934), symphonic poem for orchestra, two piano sonatas.