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Alan Rawsthorne (2 May 1905 – 24 July 1971) was a British composer. He was born in Haslingden, Lancashire, and is buried in Thaxted churchyard in Essex .
Alan Rawsthorne. Born on 2 May 1905 in Haslingden, Lancashire, His parents tried to discourage him from music so he spent time studying to become a dentist and an architect before he committed to a career in music in his early twenties.
Alan Rawsthorne (born May 2, 1905, Haslingden, Lancashire, Eng.—died July 24, 1971, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire) was an English composer best known for his finely structured orchestral and chamber music written in a restrained, unostentatious style.
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Alan Rawsthorne was a British composer, film scorer, music editor, author, and radio talk show presenter. At the heart of his musical contribution was a unique blend of European and English 20th-century techniques which concentrated on instrumental rather than vocal music.
Alan Rawsthorne was born on 2 May 1905 in Haslingden, Lancashire. He spent a period of training as a dentist, and not until his early twenties did he take up music seriously. He then entered the Royal Manchester College of Music, studying piano, composition, and cello.
Alan Rawsthorne was a prolific composer whose style owes little to either the folksong-inspired diatonicism or the modernism of many of his contemporaries and immediate predecessors.
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Alan Rawsthorne. ABOUT. The Music of Alan Rawsthorne. Rawsthorne has been called master of the epigram. As a generality this term provides the listener with an expectation of the dimensions of his music, it does not signify that he is in any sense a miniaturist.
