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Gordon Crosse (1 December 1937 – 21 November 2021) was an English composer. Biography. Crosse was born in Bury, Lancashire on 1 December 1937, [1] and in 1961 graduated from St Edmund Hall, Oxford with a first class honours degree in music, where his tutors included Egon Wellesz. [2] .
Nov 24, 2021 · 1 December 1937 – 21 November 2021. Gordon Crosse was born in Bury, Lancashire, where his father worked for the Midland Bank, on 1st December 1937. Though plagued by illness for much of his life (see Crosse’s own notes) his father was a talented amateur pianist, organist and cellist, as well as an ingenious amateur inventor and engineer.
Born December 1 1937; died November 21, 2021. Peter Dickinson remembers a fellow composer - whose music he also recorded - and points listeners to some recordings of key works. Gordon Crosse made prominent headlines in British music from the mid-1960s through the 1980s.
- Peter Dickinson
Dec 23, 2021 · Recollections of Gordon Crosse. Dec 23, 2021 | Features. Following on from John Turner’s comprehensive tribute to his long-standing friend Gordon Crosse, Andrew Burn recalls how Crosse influenced and guided him at a crucial point during his teens.
Dec 28, 2021 · By Nicolas Quiroga. (Credit: Marc Yeats 2019) English composer Gordon Crosse has passed away on Nov. 21, 2021. He was 84. Born on December 1, 1937 in the industrial town of Bury, near Manchester, Crosse’s musical education as a child was sporadic.
Biography. Born December 1st, 1937 in Bury Lancashire, UK. Studied at Oxford University 1958-1963 and on an Italian Government Scholars...hip with Goffredo Petrassi in Rome in 1962. Worked in Adult education (WEA) then in post at Birmingham University, University of Essex, Fellow of Kings College Cambridge, and finally teaching at UCSB (Santa ...
Gordon Crosse (1937 – 2021) From the mid-1960s through the 1980s the works of Gordon Crosse made prominent headlines in British music. Many of us considered him one of the most significant composers of a talented generation that included Birtwistle, Davies, Maw, and Bennett.
