Sir Neville Marriner (born April 15, 1924) is a conductor and violinist. April 15 is the 105th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (106th in leap years). ... 1924 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... A conductors score and batons Conducting is the act of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. ... A violinist is an instrumentalist who plays the violin. ...

Marriner was born in Lincoln and studied at the Royal College of Music and the Paris Conservatoire. He played the violin in the Philharmonia and London Symphony Orchestra and formed the Jacobean Ensemble with Thurston Dart before going to Hancock, Maine in the United States to study conducting with Pierre Monteux at his school there. In 1956 he founded the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields chamber orchestra and has made many recordings conducting them. He conducted the Minnesota Orchestra from 1979 to 1986 and the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra from 1986 to 1989. He was knighted in 1985. Lincoln (pronounced Lin-kun) is a cathedral city and county town of Lincolnshire, England, a bridging point over the River Witham that flows to Boston. ... The Royal College of Music from Prince Consort Road, London The front facade of the RCM The Royal College of Music is a prestigious music school located in Kensington, London. ... Conservatoire de Paris, or Paris Conservatoire, has been central to the evolution of music in France and Western Europe. ... The Philharmonia is an orchestra based in London. ... The London Symphony Orchestra (frequently abbreviated to LSO) is one of the major orchestras of the United Kingdom. ... Thurston Dart (September 3, 1921 - March 6, 1971), was an eminent British musicologist, conductor and keyboard player. ... Hancock is a town located in Hancock County, Maine. ... Pierre Monteux (April 4, 1875 – July 1, 1964) was an orchestra conductor born in Paris, France. ... The Academy of St. ... The Minnesota Orchestra is an American orchestra. ... The Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra is an orchestra based in Stuttgart in Germany. ... A silver statue of an armoured knight, created as a trophy in 1850 For the chess piece, see knight (chess). ...

Marriner has conducted a range of repertoire, but is particularly noted as an interpreter of Baroque music. He selected and arranged the music used in the film Amadeus and oversaw the recording of its soundtrack at the helm of the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields. Baroque music is Western classical music from the Baroque era, after the Renaissance music era and before the Classical music era proper. ... Amadeus is the title of both a stage play and a film written in 1979 by Peter Shaffer, both loosely based on the lives of the composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri. ...

Neville Marriner is the father of the clarinettist Andrew Marriner.