biography
pronunciation:
[serl]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1915–82)
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| biography:
| Composer, born in Oxford, Oxfordshire, SC England, UK. He studied at the Royal College of Music, London, and in Vienna with Webern, and became musical adviser to Sadler's Wells Ballet (1951–7). He wrote Twentieth Century Counterpoint, and a study of the music of Liszt. An exponent of the ‘12-note system’, his compositions include five symphonies, two piano concertos, and three operas, including Hamlet (1968). He also composed a trilogy of works for speaker, chorus, and orchestra to words by Edith Sitwell and James Joyce. |
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