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Alan Hacker

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2001 - Mozart Clarinet Quintets
1999 - Sun, Moon And Stars
1989 - Brahms - Clarinet Trio & Sonatas
1989 - Mendelssohn: Works for Clarinet, Basset Horn & Piano
1988 - Clarinet Concerto / Three Symphonies
1987 - Love's Labours Lost Suite / Clarinet Concerto / Prelude / Ro
1987 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Gran Partita Sérénade En Si Bém
1986 - Mozart - Music for Friends
1984 - Concerto for Orchestra / Clarinet Concerto no. 2
1983 - Clarinet Collection
1982 - Brahms: Clarinet Quintet; Wolf: Italian Serenade
1982 - Carl Maria von Weber - Quintette Pour Clarinette En Si Bémo
1977 - Hymn to the Sun
1976 - Mozart and Stadler - Music for Clarinets and Bassethorns
1975 - Johann Stamitz - Klarinettenkonzert B-dur - Sinfonia Pastora
1974 - Verses For Ensembles / Nenia - The Death Of Orpheus / The Fi
1972 - Missa super L'Homme armé / From Stone to Thorn / Hymnos / A

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Alan Ray Hacker (30 September 1938 – 16 April 2012) was an English clarinettist, conductor, and music professor.

He was born in Dorking, Surrey in 1938, the son of Kenneth and Sybil Hacker. After attending Dulwich College (from 1950 to 1955, under Stanley Wilson until the end of 1953), he went on to study at the Royal Academy of Music where he won the Dove Prize and the Boise Travelling Scholarship which he used to study in Paris, Bayreuth and Vienna.

In 1958 he joined the London Philharmonic Orchestra. He became a professor of the Royal Academy of Music in 1960 and went on to found the Pierrot Players in 1965 along with American pianist Stephen Pruslin and Harrison Birtwistle. In 1966, a thrombosis on his spinal column caused permanent paraplegia. For the rest of his life he used a wheelchair and drove adapted cars. In 1972, the Pierrot Players renamed themselves the Fires of London, and Hacker continued to perform with them until 1976. In 1971, he founded his own group, Matrix. He was also appointed chairman of the Institute of Contemporary Arts Music section and of the British section of the International Society for Contemporary Music. He was one of those credited with reviving the basset clarinet, and in 1967, he restored the original text of Mozart's Concerto and Quintet. He played them on an instrument modelled on that for which Mozart originally wrote them, the Stadler's extended basset clarinet.

Hacker also founded the Music Party in 1972, an organisation set up for the authentic performance of classical music. The later establishment of the Classical Orchestra in York was also a vehicle which promoted the performances of the classics on original instruments. Hacker also branched out into conducting opera, where he led performances of works from Monteverdi's Ulisse to Birtwistle's The Io Passion.

In the 1972–1973 academic year he became the Sir Robert Mayer lecturer at Leeds University. In 1976 he was appointed lecturer in music at the University of York and went on to hold a post of senior lecturer between 1984 and 1987.

Hacker was awarded the OBE for his services to music in 1988. In 1994, he was a guest on Desert Island Discs.
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