Lawrance Collingwood

Lawrance Arthur Collingwood CBE (14 March 1887 – 19 December 1982) was an English conductor, composer and record producer.Lawrance Collingwood was born in London and became a choirboy at Westminster Abbey. He studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Exeter College, Oxford (1907–1911).He went to Russia as a young man, took courses at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory with Alexander Glazunov, Wihtol, Maximilian Steinberg and Nikolai Tcherepnin, and worked for some years as assistant conductor to Albert Coates at the St. Petersburg Opera. He also conducted at the Mariinsky Theatre. His two piano sonatas, which show the influence of Alexander Scriabin, were published there.