biography
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Tippett, Sir Michael (Kemp)
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| (1905–98)
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| biography:
| Composer, born in London, UK. He studied at the Royal College of Music, London, and became director of music at Morley College (1940–51). His oratorio, A Child of Our Time (1941), reflecting the problems of the 1930s and 1940s, won him wide recognition. A convinced pacifist, he was imprisoned for three months as a conscientious objector during World War 2. He scored a considerable success with his operas The Midsummer Marriage (1952) and King Priam (1961), and among his other works are four symphonies, a piano concerto, and string quartets. His books include Music of the Angels (1980), Those Twentieth Century Blues (1991), and Tippett on Music (1995). He was knighted in 1966, and received the Order of Merit in 1983. |
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