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Christopher Gunning (5 August 1944 – 25 March 2023) was an English composer of concert works and music for films and television. Early life. Gunning was born in Cheltenham on 5 August 1944, the younger of two sons. He grew up in Hendon. His father was a pianist and educator from South Africa, and his mother had been one of his father's pupils. [1]
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- 5 August 1944, Cheltenham, England
- Composer
- 25 March 2023 (aged 78), Hertfordshire, England
Apr 11, 2023 · Tue 11 Apr 2023 12.35 EDT. Last modified on Wed 7 Jun 2023 06.42 EDT. The composer Christopher Gunning, who has died aged 78 of renal cancer, operated with equal assurance in both the film and...
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Mar 29, 2023 · Christopher Gunning (1944-2023) by David Smith. The widely acclaimed English composer and conductor Christopher Gunning, known for both his film and television music and his symphonic orchestral compositions, has died at the age of 78.
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Apr 15, 2023 · Christopher Gunning, who has died aged 78, won a Bafta award for his evocative score to La Vie en Rose (2007), the Oscar-winning biopic of Edith Piaf, in which he skilfully incorporated some of...
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5 August 1944 to 25 March 2023. A British composer, who worked across film and television in an award-winning career spanning 50 years. Christopher Gunning won four BAFTAs, three for Original Television Music for Porterhouse Blue (1987), Agatha Christie’s Poirot (1989-2004) and Middlemarch (1994), adding another for the film La Vie En Rose ...
GUNNING. Christopher Gunning was a British composer of music for films, television and the concert hall. He composed 13 symphonies, numerous concertos and other concert works, and a large number of scores for films and television dramas, including Agatha Christie’s ‘Poirot,’ La Vie en Rose, Middlemarch, Cold Lazarus, Rebecca, Under ...
