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Copland, Aaron: 1900 - 1990
Copland "showed the world how to write classical music in an American way". Made up of simple harmonies, folk melodies and straightforward...
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Coward, Noel: 1899 - 1973
Composer of "Mad Dogs and Englishmen" and many other well known songs, Noel Coward's comedies were also hugely successful during the 30s and ...
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Maconchy, Elizabeth: 1907 - 1984
"Being a composer is a wonderful life sentence from which there is no escape." Elizabeth Maconchy is considered to be among the finest British...
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Previn, André: b1929
As well as being a versatile musician André Previn's compositions include a piano concerto commissioned by Vladimir Ashkenazy, a cello concerto,...
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Rodgers and Hammerstein: 1902 to 1979 - 1895 to 1960
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein began their collaboration in 1943, the result was Oklahoma!, winning a Pulitzer prize and signalling the...
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Shankar, Ravi: b1920
Of legendary stature as a composer, performer and teacher, Ravi Shankar has been key in developing Western appreciation and understanding of the...
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Tippett, Michael: 1905 - 1998
One of the leading English composers of the 20th century, Sir Michael Tippett was also a pacifist and political radical reating the oratorio A Child...
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Vaughan Williams, Ralph: 1872 - 1958
A master composer of vocal and orchestral music, Ralph Vaughan William's music helped to form a distinctively English national style. His nine...
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