Composer
Harrison Birtwistle
English composer (1934–2022)
1934–2022
17 works and musical collections
- Born
- 1934
- Died
- 2022
- Birthplace
- Accrington
- Place of death
- Mere
- Citizenship / historical state
- United Kingdom
- Period (estimated from birth year)
- Contemporary
Biography
Sir Harrison Birtwistle (15 July 1934 – 18 April 2022) was an English composer of contemporary classical music best known for his operas, often based on mythological subjects. Among his many compositions, his better known works include The Triumph of Time (1972) and the operas The Mask of Orpheus (1986), Gawain (1991), and The Minotaur (2008). The last of these was ranked by music critics at The Guardian in 2019 as the third-best piece of the 21st century. Even his compositions that were not written for the stage often showed a theatrical approach. A performance of his saxophone concerto Panic during the BBC's Last Night of the Proms caused "national notoriety". He received many international awards and honorary degrees.
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Life and musical career
- Occupations
- composer; music educator; film score composer; musician
- Teachers
- Richard Hall
- Career institutions / employers
- Royal Academy of Music; King's College London
- Recorded memberships
- Academy of Arts, Berlin
- Genres
- opera
- Awards
- Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres; Grawemeyer Awards; Wihuri Sibelius Prize; Ernst von Siemens Music Prize; Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition; Companion of Honour; Knight Bachelor; Royal Philharmonic Society Award (Chamber-Scale Composition); Royal Philharmonic Society Award (Large-Scale Composition)
- Languages used
- English
- VIAF ID
- 36906604
- ISNI
- 0000000108876558
- GND ID
- 118851780
- Library of Congress ID
- n80133190
- MusicBrainz ID
- 32fe4f94-8ea7-4dc6-acc0-0992806db30e
Recorded in Wikidata. Affiliations may refer to earlier stages of the composer's career.
In this catalogue
- Common listed instruments
- Orchestra, A Cappella, Piano
- Genres represented
- Classical
- Source entries with composition dates
- 0
These details describe the indexed sheet music, including arrangements.
Catalogue
Sheet music catalogue
Instruments describe listed editions, including arrangements. Composition dates and keys appear where recorded; collection pages show their individual contents.
| Title | Work details | Listed instruments | Sheet music |
|---|---|---|---|
| Todnauberg | See work details | See edition details | View sheet music |
| Psalm | See work details | See edition details | View sheet music |
| Pange Lingua | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| With Letter and Clock | See work details | See edition details | View sheet music |
| Dance of the metro-gnome | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| This Silence before Light | See work details | See edition details | View sheet music |
| The Corridor | See work details | See edition details | View sheet music |
| O bone Jesu | See work details | See edition details | View sheet music |
| In Supremae Nocte Cenae | See work details | See edition details | View sheet music |
| Night | See work details | See edition details | View sheet music |
| Thread Suns | See work details | See edition details | View sheet music |
| White and Light | See work details | See edition details | View sheet music |
| An Eye, Open | See work details | See edition details | View sheet music |
| Tenebrae | See work details | See edition details | View sheet music |
| Give the Word | See work details | See edition details | View sheet music |
| The Shadow Of Night | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| Panic | See work details |
| View sheet music |
Biographical record: Wikidata, matched on name and checked against dates held in the catalogue. The period label is an estimate from birth year. Authority record: VIAF 36906604. Portrait: MITO SettembreMusica, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.