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Robert Simpson

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Also known as Robert, Robert Wilfred Levick Simpson

English composer and BBC producer and broadcaster (1921–1997)

Person · Open Library

Works
24

Top works

  • Eight panes of glass
  • The Symphony
  • The Essence of Bruckner
  • Carl Nielsen Symphonist 1965-1931
  • Diabolique, Issue #3

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783
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16,694

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Robert Simpson (1921-1997) was arguably Britain's most important composer since Vaughan Williams; he was certainly one of the century's most powerful and original symphonists anywhere. He completed 11 symphonies, concertos for violin, piano, flute and cello, 15 string quartets, and two choral compositions. Simpson used those large-scale forms to grapple with particular compositional problems, often with considerable ingenuity. Most employ the structural <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Robert+

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name in native language
Robert Simpson
date of birth
1921-03-02
date of death
1997-11-21
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