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Burgon, Geoffrey (1941– )| English composer. He studied with Peter Wishart and Lennox Berkeley at the Guildhall School of Music. His music shows a range of influences, including jazz and medieval French music. He is best known for his themes for successful TV series, including Brideshead Revisited (1981). |
Works Stage opera Hard Times (1991, after Dickens); ballets The Golden Fish (1964), Ophelia (1964), Persephone (1979), The Trial of Prometheus (1988). |
Orchestral Brideshead Variations (1981), The World Again (1983). |
Voices and orchestra Think on Dredful Domesday (1969), Magnificat (1970), Veni Spiritus, Orpheus and Revelations, all for soloists, chorus, and orchestra (1979–84). |
Other vocal Songs of the Creation for chorus and organ (1989), A Vision for tenor and strings (1991); other works for chorus, and for voice and piano or chamber ensemble. |
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