Leonard Salzedo

Leonard Salzedo (24 September 1921, London – 6 May 2000, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire) was an English composer and conductor of Spanish descent. He studied composition under Herbert Howells and violin under Isolde Menges at the Royal College of Music in London, before becoming a professional composer in 1944. He worked closely with the Ballet Rambert, for whom his first ballet, The Fugitive, was commissioned. His most successful ballet was The Witch Boy based on the ‘Ballad of Barbara Allan’.