Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Albert Ketèlbey

Albert Ketèlbey

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The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/August 9, 2016 by — Chris Woodrich (talk) 06:58, 26 July 2016 (UTC)



Albert Ketèlbey (9 August 1875 – 26 November 1959) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist, best known for his light orchestral music. He was born in Birmingham, moving to London in 1889 to study at Trinity College of Music where he became musical director of the Vaudeville Theatre. For many years Ketèlbey worked for music publishers including Chappell & Co and the Columbia Graphophone Company, providing arrangements for smaller orchestras. He composed accompanying music for silent films; In a Monastery Garden (1915) sold over a million copies and brought widespread notice. Later soundtracks for exotic scenes, such as In a Persian Market (1920, cover pictured), In a Chinese Temple Garden (1923), and In the Mystic Land of Egypt (1931), were best-sellers; by the late 1920s Ketèlbey was Britain's first millionaire composer, although his popularity waned during the Second World War. In 1949 he retired to the Isle of Wight where he died in obscurity. In a 2003 poll by the BBC's Your Hundred Best Tunes, Bells across the Meadows was voted thirty-sixth most popular tune of all time.
 * Most recent similar article(s): no classical music biography found in 2016
 * Main editors: SchroCat, Tim riley
 * Promoted: Jan 2016
 * Reasons for nomination: birthday, - waiting for a round one would talk long
 * Support as nominator. Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:04, 3 July 2016 (UTC)
 * The article lead is significantly better, more nuanced and convincing that the current blurb, which in its current state does not advertise the article as well as it might. This might be one where Dank steps up and earns those big buck that, as a gentleman volunteer, he is not paid for. I will certainly help; or lead if its ok to re structure the blurb entirely. Ceoil (talk) 01:45, 9 July 2016 (UTC)