Frank James Lindsay Bury (1910-1944) was a British

United Kingdom

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 composer

Composer

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. He studied music at Cambridge University and attended the Royal College of Music

Royal College of Music

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, where he was a student of Malcolm Sargent

Malcolm Sargent

Sir Harold Malcolm Watts Sargent was an English conductor, organist and composer widely regarded as Britain's leading conductor of choral works...

 and Gordon Jacob

Gordon Jacob

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. Bury also studied under Bruno Walter

Bruno Walter

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.

Bury was the founder of the Ludlow

Ludlow

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 Choral Society. He was killed in June 1944 while serving as a commando during the Normandy

Normandy

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airborne landings.

Among his works is a Prelude and Fugue in E flat for two pianos.