Aldwyn cooper biography of william

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William Alwyn was born in Northampton on the 7^th November 1905, and died in Southwold Suffolk on 11^th September 1985 just two months short of what would have been his eightieth birthday.

He began his musical studies in 1920 aged just fifteen studying flute, piano, and composition at London’s Royal Academy of Music where in 1926, at the age of twenty-one, he was appointed Professor of Composition; a position that he was to retain for almost thirty years.

Aldwyn cooper biography of william

During his long and prolific career Alwyn produced close to three hundred compositions that includes music in the majority of genres; opera, ballet, orchestral, chamber, instrumental and song. His major orchestral works include five symphonies, concertos for flute, oboe, violin, harp, and piano (two), a Sinfonietta for string orchestra, and three concerti grossi.

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