Williamson, Malcolm Benjamin Graham Christopher
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Australian-born composer (b. Nov. 21, 1931, Sydney, Australia—d. March 2, 2003, Cambridge, Eng.), was an astonishingly prolific and versatile composer as well as the first non-Briton to become (1975) master of the queen's music. His body of work, which juxtaposed a deep mysticism with popular idioms and was widely, though not universally, admired, included 7 symphonies, 11 operas, 4 masses, and a large number of other choral and orchestral pieces. He also composed several short operas for children as well as “cassations”—small operas for audience participation that were intended partially as teaching devices. After studying music in Sydney, Williamson moved to London in 1950, and by the early 1960s he was able to support himself by composition alone. His work during this period included the organ piece
Vision of Christ-Phoenix (1962) and the opera
Our Man in Havana (1963). More of his later compositions were produced for Australia, among them
The True Endeavour (1988), for speaker,
chorus, and
orchestra. The song cycle
A Year of Birds appeared in 1995. Williamson was appointed CBE in 1976 and an Officer of the Order of Australia in 1987.
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