 Born in Manchester on 10 August 1909, Brian Easdale came to fame for his work on nine Powell and/or Pressburger films, beginning with Black Narcissus (1947) and winning an Oscar for The Red Shoes (1948), for which he composed the title ballet. Michael Powell found him 'the ideal musical collaborator', creating a sort of 'opera' in which 'music, emotion, image and voices all blended together into a new and splendid whole'. Trained at the Royal College of Music, his pre-Powell experiences included writing concert music, music for the theatre, and, during WW2 when he was in the Royal Artillery, he was often assigned to writing music for documentaries, as he had begun to do in 1936, for the GPO and Crown Film Unit. Brian McFarlane, Encyclopedia of British Film
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