A pupil of Vaughan Williams, Patrick Hadley returned to his old university, Cambridge, as a lecturer and finally as professor of music. As a composer he made a useful contribution to choral and vocal repertoire, often reflecting the influence of English folk-music.
Vocal and Choral Music
Hadley had a sensitive feeling for language, shown in settings of poems by Keats, Thomas Hardy and W.B. Yeats, with a notable setting of words from the Song of Solomon, My Beloved Spake.