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Edwin Roxburgh

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British composer

Person · Open Library

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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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United Kingdom
Active from
1937
composer

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Listeners
3,570
Total plays
11,688

Tags

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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

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Edwin
Gender
male
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Place of birth
Liverpool
Occupation
oboist
Languages spoken
English language
Instrument
oboe
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date of birth
1937-11-06
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