| Biography | Patrick Piggott (15 June 1915, Dover, England - 9 May 1990, Bristol, England) was an English composer, pianist and musicologist.
Piggott studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London - piano with Harold Craxton and composition with Benjamin Dale. Later he studied with Emile Bosquet, Nadia Boulanger and Julius Isserlis. His work as a musicologist and author included The Life and Music of John Field 1782-1837 Creator of the Nocturne, the BBC Music Guide on Rachmaninov Orchestral Music and The Innocent Diversion - Music in the Life and Writings of Jane Austen.
When Piggott died he was practically forgotten as a composer. There are no commercial recordings featuring his reputed virtuosity as a pianist, and until Malcolm Binns' 2010 CD of Piggott's piano music on the British Music Society label, no recordings of the composer's music were available. |