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1908-1998

 Clive Richardson was a British pianist and composer. During a long and successful career he composed many pieces of light music which are still familiar by their melody, if not their name.

 Towards the end of the second World War the publishers Lawrence Wright asked Richardson to compose an eight-minute work similar to Richard Addinsell's hugely successful "Warsaw Concerto", which had been featured in the 1941 film "Dangerous Moonlight" starring Anton Walbrook, Sally Gray and Cecil Parker. The work was originally conceived as "The Coventry Concerto" being a tribute to the Midlands city where Clive Richardson had been stationed. But as the score developed, the composer realised that it was more suited to our capital city, and it eventually appeared in 1944 as "London Fantasia".