Anthony Payne (born August 2, 1936) is an English composer, most famous for the work published as Edward Elgar: The Sketches for Symphony No. 3 Elaborated by Anthony Payne.
Born in London, Payne was interested in composing music from an early age. After studying at St Cuthbert's Society, Durham University, he spent a period as a freelance musicologist. Since the mid 1960s when he composed his Phoenix Mass, he received commissions for new works fr...
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Anthony Payne (born August 2, 1936) is an English composer, most famous for the work published as Edward Elgar: The Sketches for Symphony No. 3 Elaborated by Anthony Payne.
Born in London, Payne was interested in composing music from an early age. After studying at St Cuthbert's Society, Durham University, he spent a period as a freelance musicologist. Since the mid 1960s when he composed his Phoenix Mass, he received commissions for new works from several important ensembles including the English Chamber Orchestra and the Nash Ensemble; his orchestral work Time's Arrow was premiered at The Proms in London in 1990. He has also composed a Concerto for Orchestra (1974) and other orchestral pieces, as well as chamber, instrumental and choral works.
When Elgar died, he left more than 130 pages of sketches for a third symphony. Although initially reluctant to allow anyone to use these sketches (Elgar himself had expressed a wish that no-one should "tinker" with them), the Elgar family...
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