Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1937-11-06
- Works
- 6
Top works
- Conducting for a New Era
- Oboe
- How pleasant to know Mr. Lear, for narrator and orchestra
- Images, for oboe and piano
- Movements, for string quartet
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Edwin Roxburgh (born 1937 in Liverpool) is a British composer and oboist. After playing oboe in the National Youth Orchestra, he won a double scholarship to study composition with Herbert Howells and oboe with Terence MacDonagh at the Royal College of Music. He also studied composition with Nadia Boulanger in Paris and Luigi Dallapicolla in Florence. After his studies he became principal oboist of the Sadler's Wells Opera and taught composition and conducting at the Royal College, where he fou
Key dates
- Born
- 6 November 1937
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Edwin
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Liverpool
- Occupation
- oboist
- Educated at
- Royal College of Music
- Employer
- Royal College of Music
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Instrument
- oboe
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Categories
1937 births20th-century English classical composers20th-century English male composers21st-century English classical composers21st-century English male composersAcademics of the Royal Birmingham ConservatoireAlumni of the Royal College of MusicBritish male oboistsEnglish classical oboistsEnglish male classical composersLiving peopleMusicians from Liverpool