Hubert Bath
Hubert Charles Bath (6 November 1883 – 24 April 1945) was an English film composer, music director, and conductor. His credits include the music to the Oscar-winning documentary Wings Over Everest (1934), as well as to the films Tudor Rose (1936), A Yank at Oxford (1938) and Love Story (1944).
Biography
Bath was born in
His composition Out of the Blue has been used as the theme music of Sports Report since the programme started in 1948. Also well-known is his Cornish Rhapsody, written for, and essential to the plot of, the 1944 film Love Story. Humorous cantatas such as The Wedding of Shon Maclean (1909), Look at the Clock (1910) and The Wake of O'Connor (1914) were popular with choral societies in their day. There are also many suites of character pieces for piano, including Shakespeare Pieces (1916), My Lady (1923), the Italian Suite (1924), the Gaelic Suite (five Irish sketches for piano), published in 1927,[4] and the Sonnet Suite (1933). Freedom, a 12 minute symphonic piece first used for the National Championships in 1922, is said to be the first brass band symphony, though it’s really a suite.
In 1924, Bath was named as
Bath died in Harefield, Middlesex in 1945, aged 61. His son John Bath (1915–2004) was also a film composer.[6]
Selected filmography
- Under the Greenwood Tree (1929)
- The Informer (1929)
- The Plaything (1929)
- Tell England (1931)
- Evensong (1934 - uncredited)
- Wings Over Everest (1934)[7]
- Breakers Ahead (1935)
- His Lordship (1936)
- The Luck of the Irish (1936)
- Tudor Rose (1936)
- Non-Stop New York (1937)
- The Great Barrier (1937)
- A Yank at Oxford (1938)
- Dear Octopus (1943)
- Love Story (1944)
Notes
- ^ "London Opera House," The Daily Telegraph, London, 29 July, 1915.
- ^ Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, 7th ed. (1984) and earlier editions
- ^ "A FIRST GARLAND OF BRITISH LIGHT MUSIC COMPOSERSl". www.musicweb-international.com.
- ^ "Hubert Bath - Gaelic Suite" – via www.youtube.com.
- ^ "Actress's Flat in Chelsea – Composer Friend Cited as Co-Respondent". North Devon Journal. Barnstaple. 15 May 1924. p. 3. Retrieved 12 December 2012.
- ^ "OBITUARIES / HUBERT BATH". Variety. 9 May 1945. p. 46. Retrieved 3 March 2023 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ "Wings Over Everest (1934)" – via www.filmaffinity.com.
External links
- Media related to Hubert Bath at Wikimedia Commons
- Hubert Bath at IMDb
- Free scores by Hubert Bath at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
- Hubert Bath discography at Discogs