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    Barry Tuckwell
    Barry Tuckwell

    Australian French horn player, conductor and educator at the University of Melbourne after retiring in 1997.

    Born: 5th March 1931 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
    Died: 16th January 2020 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
    3rd Horn with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (aged 15) and then 5th in the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Principal Horn of London Symphony Orchestra (1955-1967). He founded the Maryland Symphony Orchestra in 1982 and was the first president of the International Horn Society from 1970-1976 and again in 1992-1994. Appointed OBE (1965) & Companion of the Order of Australia (1992).

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