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English composer and double bassist

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Works
11

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  • Requiem
  • String Quartet No. 3 - Music Of Our Time - quatuor à cordes - Partition - ED 12617
  • The World’s Worst
  • Three elegies for nine clarinets (1993)

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Known for

  • Merce Cunningham: A Lifetime of Dance — Self2001
  • Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars1987

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Richard Gavin Bryars (born 1943) is an English composer and double bassist. He has been active in (or has produced works in) many varied styles of music, including jazz, free improvisation, minimalism experimental music, avant-garde, neoclassicism, and ambient. Born in Goole, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, Bryars initially studied philosophy at Sheffield University before studying music for three years. The first musical work for which is he remembered was his role as bassist in the trio Jo

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Gavin Bryars
date of birth
1943-01-16
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