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Australian Horn player Barry Tuckwell has died on the 16th. He was 88. Born in Melbourne and studied music there, he moved to the UK in 1950 and joined the London Symphony Orchestra in 1955, where he served as principal player for 13 years. After leaving the Orchestra, he also worked as a soloist and conductor. He was the president of the International Horn Association from 1970 to 1976, and from 1992 to 1994. He has recorded over 50 recordings and has been nominated three times for the US Grammy Awards.

His father is an organist, and Tuckwell studied piano, violin and organ from an early age, and studied the horn at the Sydney Conservatory. At the age of 15, he became the third horn of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, and a year later he was invited by conductor Eugène Goossens to serve as principal player for the Sydney Symphony Orchestra for three and a half years. After moving to Britain, he was discovered by the famous conductor John Barbirolli and became the principal player of the Halle Orchestra. He was also greatly influenced by his encounter with the famous horn player, Dennis Brain.

After that, he went to the Scottish National Orchestra and Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra before becoming London Symphony Orchestra. During his tenure, he was elected to the board and chaired the board for six years. In 1965, he was described in the Order of the British Empire OBE. He also taught at the Royal Academy of Music in London and at the University of Melbourne. He returned to Australia in 1980, and for the next four years was the principal conductor of the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. In 1997, he performed a farewell concert as a horn player with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.

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