George Hurst: an obituary

Influential conductor and teacher with a remarkable talent for inspiring his studentsGeorge Hurst, who has died at the age of 86, may not have been a household name on the podium, but the mark he made on British conducting of the past half-century was immense. As a teacher at both the Canford (now Sherborne) summer school of music and the Royal Academy of Music, he exerted a formative influence on several generations of conductors. Simon Rattle, Andrew Davis, John Eliot Gardiner and Mark Wiggles...

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