What is Hamish MacCunn?
{{Infobox musical artist | Name = Hamish MacCunn | Img = Hamish MacCunn.JPG | Img_capt = Portrait of Hamish MacCunn, 1889, by John Pettie | Background = non_performing_personnel | Birth_name = Hamish MacCunn | birth_date = 22 March 1868 | birth_place = {{flagicon|SCO}} [[Greenock]], [[Scotland]] | death_date = 2 August 1916 | death_place = {{flagicon|ENG}} [[London]], [[England]] | Genre = [[Romantic music|Romantic]] | Occupation = [[Composer]], [[Conducting|Conductor]] | Years_active = | Notable_instruments = }} '''Hamish MacCunn''' (22 March 1868 – 2 August 1916), was a [[Scotland|Scottish]] [[composer]] and [[Conductor (music)|conductor]] who lived in the later part of the [[Romantic music|romantic]] period. ==Birth== He was born in [[Greenock]]. His father was a shipowner. He soon showed a great talent for music. In 1883, he got a [[scholarship]] to study at the [[Royal College of Music]], which had only just been founded. His teachers there included Sir [[Hubert Parry]] and Sir [[Charles Villiers Stanford]]. ==Works== MacCunn became a professor of [[harmony]] at the [[Royal Academy of Music]] from 1888-1894. He also taught at the [[Guildhall School of Music]]. MacCunn composed several orchestral works as well as [[opera]]s, but he had to spend more and more time conducting in order to earn money. For a time he conducted the Carl Rosa Opera Company. He conducted [[Richard Wagner|Wagner’s]] opera ''[[Siegfried (opera)|Siegfried]]'' and the first performance in [[English language|English]] of ''[[Tristan and Isolde]]''. In 1887, he conducted his [[overture]] ''The Land of the Mountain and the Flood'' at the [[Crystal Palace]]. This was a very successful piece, and it remains the only composition of his which is still often performed. The music has a Scottish feeling and sounds quite similar to the music of [[Mendelssohn]]. Although he composed other pieces which were simil