Hadley, Patrick (Arthur Sheldon) (1899-1973)

English composer. His musical output is small but distinguished, and includes incidental music for Greek plays, choral works The Trees so High (1931) and The Hills (1944), a rhapsody One Morning in Spring for small orchestra, vocal works, church music, and a string quartet.

He was educated at Winchester College and Cambridge University, and studied music at the Royal College of Music in London, where in 1925 he joined the teaching staff. He received a PhD from Cambridge in 1938, and was appointed lecturer at the university and professor of music 1946-62.

Works Stage incidental music to Sophocles' Antigone.

Voice, chorus, and orchestra symphony for baritone and chorus The Trees so High (1931), La Belle Dame sans merci (Keats) for tenor, chorus, and orchestra, My Beloved Spake (Song of Solomon) for chorus and orchestra; cantatas The Hills for soprano, tenor, bass, chorus, and orchestra (1944), and Travellers, Ephemera (Yeats) and Mariana (Tennyson, 1937) for voice and chamber orchestra.

Chamber string quartet in C major, fantasy for two violins and piano.

Other songs; part songs.