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- Born
- 1921
- Died
- 2009-10-13
- Works
- 8
Top works
- Four duos
- Variations for clarinet and cello
- Music for piano
- Music for clarinet and piano
- Four duos, for flute or oboe and Bb clarinet
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Roger Nixon (August 8, 1921 – October 13, 2009) was an American composer, musician, and professor of music. He wrote over 60 compositions for orchestra, band, choir and opera. Nixon received many awards and honors his works, many of which contain a feel of the rhythms and dances of the early settlers of his native state of California. Nixon was born and raised in California's Central Valley towns of Tulare and Modesto. Nixon attended Modesto Junior College from 1938–1940 where he studied clarin
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