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Elisabeth Lutyens
Elisabeth Lutyens 1906 - 1983
Audio Archive
12 September 1969  Radio 3

Elisabeth Lutyens talks to Bernard Palmer about

   Audioher artistic family background, entering the world of music  2 min 54

   Audiobeing a lone female composer, her discovery of the 12 tone technique and Serialism before coming across Schoenberg or Weben  3 min 42

   Audiocoming late in life to writing opera  1 min 15

   Audioher approach to the stage  3 min 13


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Elisabeth Lutyens
English composer

Daughter of the famous architect Sir Edwin Lutyens, Elisabeth Lutyens used her own method of serial (12-tone) composition to create individual, psychologically powerful music.
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