Christopher Finzi
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Christopher "Kiffer" Finzi, (born 1934), is a British orchestral conductor.
He is the son of composer Gerald Finzi. Like his father, the younger Finzi became a pacifist; he refused to do his National Service, and was briefly imprisoned. After his father's death in 1956, he helped his mother, Joy Finzi, to establish the Finzi Trust and sustain Gerald Finzi's reputation.
Christopher Finzi married Hilary du Pré, a flautist, and they raised four children in the family's farmhouse. Her sister, the cellist Jacqueline du Pré, was part of the household during the 1970s. His wife's memoirs and the film Hilary and Jackie have dramatised his love affair (apparently consented to by his wife) with that sister-in-law. His children have questioned the accuracy of this account, stating that their father, a serial adulterer, seduced their auntTemplate:Fact.
From 1971 to 1997, Finzi was resident conductor of the North Wiltshire Orchestra. He remains particularly well-known as an interpreter of his father's music.