Harrison Birtwistle

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Harrison Birtwistle is one of England's foremost living composers. Born Accrington, 15th July 1934, died Mere Wiltshire, 18th April 2022. He studied Clarinet and Composition at the Royal Manchester College of Music from 1953 where, along with fellow students Peter Maxwell Davies, Alexander Goehr, John Ogdon and Elgar Howarth, he formed the New Music Manchester group which was dedicated to performing avant-garde and contemporary compositions. While using mostly conventional instrumental resou

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5 total works indexed

1. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

   · 2020 · cited 15,380x

2. Electron affinities of the first-row atoms revisited. Systematic basis sets and wave functions

   · 1992 · cited 14,779x

3. Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

   · 2012 · cited 10,740x

4. <i>Planck</i>2015 results

   · 2016 · cited 9,758x

5. Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines

   · 2018 · cited 9,385x

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Quotes

• “My attitude to writing is.. it's like when you do wallpapering, you know, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet, you think: "Oh my God that's horrible..." And then your friends come and say: "Who did this wallpapering? It's terrific!"”
• “I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it.”
• “Composing's not voluntary, you know. There's no choice, you're not free. You're landed with an idea and you have responsibility to that idea.”

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Key facts

Born

( 1934-07-15 ) 15 July 1934, Accrington , Lancashire , England

Died

18 April 2022 (2022-04-18) (aged 87), Mere, Wiltshire , England

Alma mater

Royal Manchester College of Music

Era

Contemporary

Works

List of compositions

Spouse

Sheila Duff ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1958 ; died 2012 ) ​

Children

3, including Adam and Silas

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Number of children

3

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