Michael Tippett
✓ Source-basedstableEnglish composer (1905-1996)
Sir Michael Kemp Tippett was an English composer who rose to prominence during and immediately after the Second World War. In his lifetime he was sometimes ranked with his contemporary Benjamin Britten as one of the leading British composers of the 20th century.
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Tippett late in life. He was active into his 90s.
Stamford School, which Tippett attended between 1920 and 1923
The Royal College of Music, where Tippett studied between 1923 and 1928
Herschel Grynszpan
Henry Purcell: Tippett continued the Morley College tradition of promoting Purcell's music
Corsham High Street (photographed in 2008), where Tippett lived during the 1960s
A Javanese gamelan ensemble with two female singers
Le Lac Rose (Lake Retba), SenegalListen
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Richard EyreAlso won Critics' Circle Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts
Bernard HaitinkAlso won honorary doctor of the Royal College of Music
Peter Maxwell DaviesAlso won Walter Willson Cobbett Medal
Malcolm SargentAlso won Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal
Joseph LunsAlso won Companion of Honour
Trevor PinnockAlso won Walter Willson Cobbett MedalAbout this person
Sir Michael Kemp Tippett was an English composer who rose to prominence during and immediately after the Second World War. In his lifetime he was sometimes ranked with his contemporary Benjamin Britten as one of the leading British composers of the 20th century. Among his best-known works are the oratorio A Child of Our Time, the orchestral Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli, and the opera The Midsummer Marriage.
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