Orchestral Music, which is housed in a barn at his family's farmhouse near Longridge in Lancashire. The library currently contains around 50,000 pieces, including many items that would otherwise have been lost. Tomlinson and his wife Jean (née Lancaster) were married from 1949 until her death in September 2006. The couple had four children, Ann, Geoffrey, Hilary and Linda. Tomlinson's four children, eight grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren survive him. Awards Tomlinson won several prestigious awards; the Composers' Guild Award in 1965 and two Ivor Novello Awards - one for services to light music in 1970, the other for his full-length ballet Aladdin in 1975. For several years he was on the Executive Committee of the Composers' Guild of Great Britain, including being its Chairman in 1964. In addition, he was from 1965 a composer-director of the Performing Rights Society. Tomlinson was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE), in the 2012 Birthday Honours, for services to music. Works Tomlinson was primarily known as a composer of light orchestral pieces and produced a considerable body of works ranging from overtures, suites and rhapsodies and miniatures, of which Little Serenade (1955, originally composed for a BBC radio production of Cinderella) and Cantilena are probably the most popular. Also notable are a number of English folk-dance arrangements. In the 1960s, he wrote a number of Test Card pieces such as Stately Occasion and the tongue-in-cheek Capability Brown. His Fantasia on Auld Lang Syne (1976) is a quodlibet, which in its 20 minutes weaves in 129 or 152 quotations (sources differ) from pieces by other composers and folk and popular songs. Tomlinson also worked on larger-scale forms, including several works in symphonic jazz style, such as Sinfonia '62, which won an Italian competition for "Rhythmic-Symphonic" works. Also notable are two symphonies, three concertos - including his Cornet Concerto performed by Maurice Murphy, his Rhapsody and Rondo for horn and orchestra (premiered by Dennis Brain, a one-act opera Head of the Family, a Festival of Song for chorus and orchestra and numerous works for choirs, brass bands and concert bands. In 1966, Tomlinson conducted his Symphony '65, in the , Moscow, played by the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra and Big Band, which was the first time a symphonic jazz work had been heard in Russia. References External links Detailed Biography at the Robert Farnon Society Biography at the Churchill Society 1924 births