Harrison Birtwistle
English composer (1934–2022)
Sir Harrison Paul Birtwistle CH (15 July 1934 – 18 April 2022) was an English composer who, like Peter Maxwell Davies and Alexander Goehr, first came to public attention in the 1950s as a member of the New Music Manchester group.
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edit- 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.
- Interviewed by Dan Warburton, July 8, 1995. [2]
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