Joseph Horovitz was an Austrian-born British composer and conductor, born in Vienna in 1926 and establishing his career in Britain after emigrating in the late 1930s; his output spans orchestral, chamber, choral, brass band and stage music. His music, often rooted in tonal and neo-classical idioms with occasional jazz and light-music elements, ranges from concert works to educational and theatrical pieces and formed part of mid- to late-20th-century British musical life.
