Sir Malcolm Henry Arnold, CBE (21 October 1921 ? 23 September 2006) was an English composer and symphonist. He was made a CBE in 1970 and knighted in 1993. Malcolm Arnold began his career as a professional trumpeter, but by the time he was thirty he was composing full-time and was bracketed with Britten and Walton as one of the most sought-after composers in Britain. His natural melodic gift earned him a reputation as a composer of light music in works such as his sets of Welsh, English, Scottish, Irish and Cornish Dances, and his scores to the St Trinian's films and Hobson's Choice. Biography Malcolm Arnold was born in Northampton, the youngest of five children from a prosperous Northampton family of shoemakers. As a rebellious teenager, he was attracted to the creative freedom of jazz. After seeing Louis Armstrong play in Bournemouth, he took up the trumpet, and at the age of 17 won a scholarship to the Royal

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