biography
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Williamson, Malcolm (Benjamin Graham Christopher)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1931–2003)
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| biography:
| Composer, born in Sydney, New South Wales, SE Australia. He moved to England in 1953, and began his career as a solo pianist and organist. His compositions include the opera Our Man in Havana (1963), the chamber opera The Red Sea (1972), and the operatic sequence The Brilliant and the Dark (1969). He also wrote seven symphonies, concertos for piano, organ, violin, and harp, several works for television and films, a great deal of vocal, choral, organ, and piano music, and ‘cassations’ (mini-operas), which often involve the audience. He was made Master of the Queen's Musick in 1975, and was associated with several choirs and music societies. |
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