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'''Peter Andrew Tranchell''' (14 July 1922 – 14 September 1993) was a British [[composer]].

==Life and career==
Tranchell was born at [[Cuddalore]], [[India]], on 14 July 1922, and educated at the [[Dragon School|Dragon School, Oxford]], [[Clifton College]]<ref>"Clifton College Register" Muirhead, J.A.O. p497: Bristol; J.W Arrowsmith for Old Cliftonian Society; April, 1948</ref> and [[King's College, Cambridge]]. During the [[Second World War]] he served, like his father, Col. H G Tranchell, in the [[British Indian Army|Indian Army]], after which he resumed his Cambridge studies, changing from exhibitioner in Classics to Music.<ref name=prog>''[https://peter-tranchell.uk/documents/petertranchellcentenarymusicalsoir%C3%A9eprogrammebooklet.pdf The Peter Tranchell Centenary Musical Soirée and Reception]'', programme, 26 November 1922</ref>

He was Lecturer in Music at the [[University of Cambridge]] from 1950 to 1989, and Fellow and Director of Studies in music at [[Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge|Gonville and Caius College]] from 1960 to 1989. As [[precentor|Praecentor]] of the college (following the retirement of [[Patrick Hadley]]) he directed the chapel choir. He died on 14 September 1993 near his home in Curdridge near Botley in Hampshire.

Amongst other activities at Caius, Tranchell became the patron, at the request of, predominantly, members of the college choir, of a dining society at Caius named the Titus Oates Society as a sort of antidote to other college clubs. He was asked by those wishing to form another dining club for a suitable name and suggested, with his frequent cheekiness, that of the most reprehensible member of Caius thitherto: [[Titus Oates]]. The dinners – dinners on the last day of Full Term in the first two academic terms and a picnic, normally watching the Bumps on the Saturday after the last – known as "Exceedings", were marked by exemplary food and drink from the college's kitchen staff (whom he held in the highest regard) and cellars and ran to some nine or so courses. In 1983, the cost was £17. This was a deliberate policy of Tranchell's to ensure that the cost would not bar anyone. This accords with Tranchell's sense of egalitarianism recorded in his descriptions of his time in the Indian Army. The dinners included various toasts: to Titus Oates, to a saint of the day – preceded by an entertaining biography of each – and to The Queen. The Titus Oates Society ran from the early 1970s until around the early 1990s, the patronage having been passed to other Fellows of the college on Tranchell's retirement in 1989.<ref name=prog/>

His compositions included the opera ''The Mayor of Casterbridge'' (1951), [[anthem]]s, and a [[cantata]]. He was also a composer of [[light music]], his output including vocal "entertainments", instrumental miniatures and the musical comedy ''[[Zuleika (musical)|Zuleika]]'' (after [[Max Beerbohm]]), produced in Cambridge in 1954 and revived in 1957. His archive is kept at [[Cambridge University Library]].

==Selected works==
===Ballets===
''Falstaff'' (1950)
 
''Fate's Revenge'' (1951), performed by [[Ballet Rambert]] at the Lyric, Hammersmith
 
''Images of Love'', (1964) produced at [[Royal Opera House|Covent Garden]] with choreography by [[Kenneth MacMillan]]

===Operas and musicals===
''The Mayor of Casterbridge'' (1951)
 
''Zuleika'' (1954)
 
''Thackeray Ditties'' (1962)
 
''His First Mayweek'' (1963)

===Incidental music===
''Johnson over Jordan'' ([[J. B. Priestley]]; 1947)
 
''[[Macbeth]]'' ([[William Shakespeare]]; 1949)
 
''[[The Merchant of Venice]]'' (Shakespeare; 1950)

===Instrumental works===
*''Organ Sonata'' (1958)
*''Festive Overture'' (1966)

===Choral works===
''Te Deum in E'' (1975)
 
''This Sorry Scheme of Things'' (1953)
 
''The Joyous Year'' (1961)
 
''If ye would hear the angels sing'' (1965)

===Hymn tunes===
MORESTEAD 
Words (Kaan): "The Fullness of the Earth is God's Alone" 
SWANMORE 
Words (Kaan): "The Earth The Sky The Oceans" 
DROXFORD 
Words (Kaan): "God gave to Man to have and hold" 
DURLEY 
Words (Kaan): "Thank you O Lord" 
These were published in Pilgrim Praise Music Edition, 1972 by [[Fred Kaan]], published by [[Stainer & Bell]]. 
WISH ROAD 
"Lord, dismiss us with thy blessing" (written for Eastbourne College)

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://peter-tranchell.uk/ Official website]

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