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"When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11."

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About Harrison Birtwistle

Harrison Birtwistle was an English composer associated with contemporary classical music. His major works include The Mask of Orpheus and Gawain, and he was widely regarded as one of Britain's most important postwar composers. He was appointed to the Order of the Companions of Honour and later knighted.

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