Editing Denis ApIvor (section)

==Biography==
ApIvor (pronounced Ap Ivor) was born in [[Collinstown]], [[County Westmeath]], Ireland, to Welsh parents, Denis ApIvor went to [[Hereford Cathedral School]] and was a chorister at [[Christ Church, Oxford]], and Hereford Cathedral. Because his parents opposed a career in music, he studied medicine in London, but had also pursued the study of music from an early age. He began his medical studies at the [[University of Aberystwyth]] in 1933, moving the next year to [[University College London]]. Inspired by hearing the first performance in England of ''[[Wozzeck]]'' (at the [[Queen's Hall]], 14 March 1934 conducted by [[Adrian Boult]]) and encouraged by [[Cecil Gray (composer)|Cecil Gray]], he also studied composition privately with [[Patrick Hadley]] and [[Alan Rawsthorne]].<ref name=anon>[http://www.musicweb-international.com/apivor/biog2.htm Unattributed biographical sketch at ''MusicWeb International'']</ref><ref>[https://blogs.bl.uk/sound-and-vision/2017/03/guest-blog-by-thomas-schuttenhelm-current-edison-fellow-and-author-of-the-selected-letters-of-michael-tippettfaber-a-cont.html British Library, ''Sound and Vision'']</ref>

At the outbreak of World War II he was for a time house physician at the [[Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth]], Hampstead. In 1942 he was called up, mostly serving as a war doctor in India.<ref name=g>{{wikicite|ref={{harvid|Johnson|2004}}|reference=Johnson, David Hackbridge. 2004. "[https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/jun/14/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries1 Denis ApIvor]" (obituary). ''The Guardian'' (14 June)}}</ref> After the war ApIvor continued with his medical career, eventually retiring in 1979 from the Mid Kent Group.

But he also returned to his musical activities. He formed a friendship with his [[Albany Street]] neighbour [[Constant Lambert]], who conducted the premiere of his first major work, a choral-orchestral setting of [[T. S. Eliot|T S Eliot]]'s ''The Hollow Men'', on 21 February, 1950.<ref>[https://library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections/view/567 ''The Hollow Men'', University of Leeds Special Collections]</ref> His diverse musical influences during this period ranged from [[Ferruccio Busoni|Busoni]], [[Frederick Delius|Delius]], [[Peter Warlock]] and [[Bernard van Dieren]] to [[Alban Berg|Berg]] and [[Anton Webern|Webern]].<ref name=grove>{{wikicite|ref={{harvid|Davies|2004}}|reference=Davies, Lyn. 2004. "ApIvor, Denis". ''Grove Music Online'', edited by Deane L. Root (updated 30 August). Oxford Music Online (accessed 4 November 2017)}}</ref>

The 1950s and 1960s were his most productive years, but despite a decline in performances from the 1970s he continued to compose into the 1990s and beyond.<ref name=g/> He left London to live in Wales in 1987 and in the 1990s moving to [[Telscombe]], near Brighton.<ref name=anon/> He died in [[Robertsbridge]], Sussex, aged 88.<ref name=leach/>