Gavin Bryars
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- Born
- 1943-01-16
- Works
- 11
Top works
- Gavin Bryars
- Requiem
- String Quartet No. 3 - Music Of Our Time - quatuor à cordes - Partition - ED 12617
- The World’s Worst
- Three elegies for nine clarinets (1993)
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Sound
Known for
- Merce Cunningham: A Lifetime of Dance — Self2001
- Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars1987
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Richard Gavin Bryars (born 1943) is an English composer and double bassist. He has been active in (or has produced works in) many varied styles of music, including jazz, free improvisation, minimalism experimental music, avant-garde, neoclassicism, and ambient. Born in Goole, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, Bryars initially studied philosophy at Sheffield University before studying music for three years. The first musical work for which is he remembered was his role as bassist in the trio Jo
Key dates
- Born
- 16 January 1943
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Gavin
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Goole
- Occupation
- musician
- Educated at
- University of Sheffield
- Employer
- De Montfort University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- opera
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Categories
1943 births20th-century British classical composers20th-century English composers20th-century English male composers21st-century British classical composers21st-century British double-bassists21st-century English male musiciansAcademics of De Montfort UniversityAlumni of the University of SheffieldAvant-garde composersAvant-garde double-bassists