Maurice Handford (1929 – 16 December 1986) was a British horn player and conductor. Handford was born in Salisbury. He was principal horn of the Hallé Orchestra 1949–61, then associate conductor 1966–71, and staff conductor. He died in Warminster. The following article was published in the Daily Telegraph on the 17th December 1986, shortly after his death: By 1962 he was sufficiently launched to be given charge of the first Hallé performance of Orff’s Carmina Burana. Soon he was conducting works of the size of Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra and Shostakovich's 12th symphony. Barbirolli concert.