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Davis died from a brain haemorrhage in Oxford on August 3, 2023, aged 86. His wife Jean Boht died a month later on September 12, 2023, aged 91, having battled vascular dementia and Alzheimer's disease .
Aug 11, 2023 · Carl Davis, whose death at 86 was announced last week, made his name with multiple gifts that embraced composition, orchestration, dramaturgy and showmanship. Where his contemporaries may have spent a lifetime anonymously labouring in music composition for large and small screens, few were as prolific, eclectic or immediately recognisable as Carl.
Aug 5, 2023 · Carl Davis, composer who brought new music to old silent films, died at 86 Mr. Davis’s wide-ranging career included scores for television series, films and more than 50 restored silent films By...
Aug 3, 2023 · Carl Davis, ‘French Lieutenant’s Woman’ and ‘Napoleon’ Composer, Dies at 86. His music for classics stimulated a global revival of silent film performance with live orchestras.
Aug 3, 2023 · Carl Davis, the American composer and conductor behind the scores for numerous award-winning British television shows and movies, including 1973’s “The World at War,” a hugely influential documentary series about World War II, has died.
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Aug 3, 2023 · American-born conductor and composer Carl Davis CBE has died at 86, following a brain haemorrhage. Davis, who has resided in the UK since 1961, was a driving force behind the resurgence of silent films.
Aug 3, 2023 · Carl Davis, who has died aged 86, was a versatile and entrepreneurial composer who could produce music on demand for almost any occasion; he made his name with new scores for silent movies, in...
Aug 3, 2023 · Carl Davis, the composer known for his BAFTA-winning score for “The French Lieutenant’s Woman” (1981), died of a brain hemorrhage on Thursday. He was 86.
Aug 3, 2023 · The composer and conductor Carl Davis has died aged 86. Born in the USA and brought up in Brooklyn, Davis studied with a number of composers of a somewhat serialist inclination - among them Hugo Kauder and later Per Nørgård - but never really seems to have imbibed the same Modernist spirit.
