Music. In his later years he laid great emphasis on the importance of live music, and worried that broadcasting and the gramophone were making music so ubiquitous and casually accessible that it was no longer special. Among Ronald's output as a composer are more than 200 songs. They include "Serenade espagnole" recorded by Caruso. The critic Michael Kennedy writes, "His compositions include a symphonic poem, an overture, a ballet, Britannia's Realm, composed for the coronation of Edward VII in 1902, and incidental music to Robert Hichens’s The Garden of Allah (1921, Drury Lane), but it is his song Down in the Forest that has survived." Ronald was knighted in 1922, and published a volume of memoirs, Variations on a Personal Theme in the same year. He published a second volume, Myself and Others, in 1931. Landon was also the editor of the first edition of Who's Who in Music in 1935. In 1932 Ronald's wife died by suicide; he married Mary Callison b. 1895, (Aunt of Lady Bridget Faulks, née Bodley b.1921), of Manchester shortly afterwards. Ronald died in London at the age of 65 after two years of declining health. Notes References Further reading External links 1873 births 1938 deaths 20th-century classical composers Alumni of the Royal College of Music Composers awarded knighthoods Conductors (music) awarded knighthoods English classical pianists Male classical pianists English classical composers English conductors (music) British male conductors (music) English Jews Jewish classical composers Knights Bachelor Musicians awarded knighthoods People educated at St Marylebone Grammar School English male classical composers 20th-century English composers British male pianists 20th-century British conductors (music) 20th-century British male musicians Presidents of the Independent Society of Musicians