Christian Darnton
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Christian Darnton (October 30, 1905-April 14, 1981) was an English composer.
A pupil of Charles Wood at Cambridge University, he went on to study in London, taking lessons in the bassoon and in conducting at the Royal College of Music; he also studied composition in Berlin with Max Butting.
Darnton had some early success as a composer, but with his conversion to Communism came a radical simplification of style that was poorly received, and he gave up composition for nearly twenty years. Late in his life he resumed the writing of music, producing a large number of works during his final decade. Darnton was friends with the South African pianist Adolph Hallis, for whom he composed a concertino.
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