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Stephen Oliver

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Also known as Stephen Michael Harding Oliver

British composer (1950-1992)

Person · Open Library

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24

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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Germany
Active from
1961

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Listeners
366
Total plays
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Oliver was born in Chester, the son of Charlotte Hester (Girdlestone), a religious education adviser, and Osborne George Oliver, an electricity board official.[1] His maternal great-grandfather was William Boyd Carpenter, a Bishop of Ripon and a court chaplain to Queen Victoria.[1] Oliver was educated at St Paul's Cathedral School, Ardingly College and at Worcester College, Oxford, where he read music under Kenneth Leighton and Robert Sherlaw Johnson. His first opera, The Duchess of Malfi (1971)

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Stephen
Gender
male
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Place of birth
Chester
Place of death
London
Occupation
composer
Languages spoken
English language
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date of birth
1950-03-10
date of death
1992-04-29
relative
John Oliver
manner of death
natural causes
medical condition
HIV/AIDS
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