biography
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Maw, (John) Nicholas
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1935– )
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| biography:
| Composer, born in Grantham, Lincolnshire, EC England, UK. He studied in London (1955–8) and Paris (1958–9), taught at Cambridge and Yale universities, and became professor of music at Milton Avery Graduate School of Arts, Bard College, NY, in 1990. His music, traditional in idiom but original in expression, includes two comic operas, One Man Show (1964) and The Rising of the Moon (1970), two string quartets, and many orchestral works, including Spring Music (1983), Odyssey (1987), and Violin Concerto (1993). |
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