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Humphrey Searle
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Vinony files it under 1915 births, 1982 deaths and 20th-century English classical composers.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 36
Top works
- Twentieth Centruy Counterpoint
- Symphony No. 2 Op. 33
- Twentieth century counterpoint;
- Hector Berlioz a Selection From His Lett
- Ballet music
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 655
- Total plays
- 3,096
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Humphrey Searle (26 August 1915 - 12 May 1982) was a British composer. He was born in Oxford where he was a classics scholar before studying — somewhat hesitantly — with John Ireland at the Royal College of Music in London, after which he went to Vienna on a six month scholarship to become a private pupil of Anton Webern, which became decisive in his composition career. Searle was one of the foremost pioneers of serial music in the United Kingdom, and used his role as a producer at the BBC from
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Oxford
- Place of death
- London
- Occupation
- film score composer
- Educated at
- Royal College of Music
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Student of
- R. O. Morris
- Genre
- symphony
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- date of birth
- 1915-08-26
- date of death
- 1982-05-12
- student
- John Cale
- Commons category
- Humphrey Searle
- P12749
- Chrysolopus
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