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MACCUNN (1868— )  , Scottish musical composer, was born at Greenock, the son of a shipowner, and was educated at the Royal College of Music . His first success was with the overture Land of the Mountain and Flood in 1887 at the Crystal Palace, and this was followed by other compositions, with a characteristic Scottish colouring . From 1888 to 1894 he was a professor at the Royal College of Music, and this latter year saw both his marriage to a daughter of John Pettie, R.A., and the production of his opera Jeanie Deans at Edinburgh . He was for some years conductor to the Carl Rosa Opera company, and subsequently to other companies . His opera Diarmid was produced at Covent Garden in 1897, and his other music includes cantatas, overtures, part-songs, instrumental pieces, and songs, all markedly Scottish in type .