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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Gordon Percival Septimus Jacob (5 July 1895 - 8 June 1984) was an English composer. He is known for his wind instrument composition and his instructional writings. Born in London, the third youngest of ten siblings, Jacob was educated at Dulwich College in South London, England. His career almost ended before it began. He enlisted in the Field Artillery to serve in World War I when he was 19. The vagaries of war pushed him into the infantry, in the trenches in the front line. He was taken prisoner of war in 1917, and was one of only 60 men in his battalion of 800 to survive. He amused himself and his fellow POWs by forming a small prison camp orchestra of any instruments they could muster, and arranging music for it. At this period he received the news that his brother Anstey, who had enlisted with him, had died in the Somme, and this he commemorated some years later in his first Symphony....