Alan Bush
✓ Source-basedstableBritish composer, musician, and educator (1900-1995)
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Alan Dudley Bush was a British composer, pianist, conductor, teacher and political activist. A committed communist, his uncompromising political beliefs were often reflected in his music.
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The Royal Academy of Music
John Ireland, Bush's early mentor and enduring friend
The Friedrich-Wilhelm University, Berlin, as it was in the 1930s
The Crystal Palace at Sydenham, venue for the 1934 Pageant for Labour
Ralph Vaughan Williams, who led the opposition to the BBC ban on Bush's music in 1941
A memorial service in 1947 at the site of the destroyed Czech village of Lidice
The death of Wat Tyler: a 14th-century depictionMusicians from United Kingdom 6
About this person
Alan Dudley Bush was a British composer, pianist, conductor, teacher and political activist. A committed communist, his uncompromising political beliefs were often reflected in his music. He composed prolifically across a range of genres but struggled through his lifetime for recognition from the British musical establishment, which largely ignored his works.
Country
United KingdomCategory
Musicians
Type
Singer / Musician
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1900 to 1995 · aged 94
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17 languages
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