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Lennox Berkeley

Short Name: Lennox Berkeley
Full Name: Berkeley, Lennox, 1903-1989
Birth Year: 1903
Death Year: 1989

Lennox Berkeley was born in 1903 in Oxfordshire, England. He studied French at Merton College, Oxford, but also studied organ. During this time he met Maurice Ravel who suggested that he study with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. He became a Roman Catholic in 1928, which influenced his music. He was a friend and collaborator with Benjamin Britten. He composed a wide range of orchestral works, choral works, and opera.

Dianne Shapiro, from biography be Peter Dickinson, 1991 accessed from Wise Music Classical website (https://www.wisemusicclassical.com/composer/109/Lennox-Berkeley/) (3/20/22)


TextsTunesHymnalsRecommendations
Tunes by Lennox Berkeley (4)sort descendingAsInstancesIncipit
BINHAMLennox Berkeley (Composer)1
BOAR'S HILLLennox Berkeley, 1903- (Composer)134321 35545
[I sing of a maiden] (Berkeley)Lennox Berkeley, 1903- (Composer)112345 12345 6
WIVETONLennox Berkeley, 1903- (Composer)156536 35421 5

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