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Aubert Lemeland and Lennox Berkeley
Allan Clive Jones remembers French composer Aubert Lemeland and his admiration of Lennox Berkeley’s music.
Aubert Lemeland was born on 19 December 1932 at La Haye-du-Puits, on the Cherbourg peninsula.
Shortly after his birth, his mother, a generous, gentle, musical woman, died of a heart attack, and before long his father married her younger sister. According to Lemeland, his stepmother was authoritarian, dominating and materialistic and he did not warm to her.
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Respite from familial discontent was found in music, initially through 78 r.p.m. discs of popular classics, and later through the piano and printed music that had belonged to his mother. He soon became a keen score-reader, despite finding piano lessons and solfège boring.
BBC music broadcasts, which could be received in Normandy, also contributed to Lemeland’s musical development.
We can only guess at what he heard, but some of the BBC programmes available during the later war years