biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1938– )
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| biography:
| Composer, pianist, artist, and writer, born in Castleford, West Yorkshire, N England, UK. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music with Lennox Berkeley, and in Paris with Nadia Boulanger. A professor at the Royal Academy (1963–87), his varied compositions include the opera Johnson Preserv'd (1967), works for piano and organ, string quartets, film and stage scores, and many choral works. He edited Composer Magazine (1969–80), and his books include poetry, novels, short stories (collected, 1997), and two volumes of autobiography, Open Window - Open Door (1985) and Between the Lines (1991). |
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