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British-Canadian composer (born 1946)

Person · Open Library

Born
1788
Died
1864
Works
50

Top works

  • The Good boy
  • Honest John, the Sunday scholar
  • Milk for babes, or, A catechism in verse
  • Jack Halyard and Ishmael Bardus
  • Bible history

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Listeners
269
Total plays
2,058

Tags

contemporary classicalpianobritishClassicalwelsh

John Metcalf (b. 1946) is a Welsh composer. Metcalf was born in Swansea, South Wales, and now holds joint British and Canadian citizenship. He began his composing career in the 1960s, and has worked extensively in the field of music and theatre, including six operas. His compositions also include orchestral and chamber works. Stylistically his work has a strong tonal influence, but is often rhythmically complex, with much use of polyrhythms. Alongside his composing work <a href="https://www.l

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple

    · 1996 · cited 204,591x

  2. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

    · 2021 · cited 43,635x

  3. Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology

    · 2000 · cited 36,910x

  4. Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment

    · 2007 · cited 35,581x

  5. The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)

    · 1992 · cited 29,131x

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Instance of
human
Given name
John
Gender
male
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Place of birth
Swansea
Occupation
composer
Languages spoken
English language
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date of birth
1946-01-01
name in native language
John Metcalf
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