Alan Bush

Alan Bush (December 22, 1900 – October 31, 1995) was a British composer and pianist.

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Bush was born in London and studied at the Royal Academy of Music there.

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Later he studied musicology and philosophy in Berlin and later still had lessons with the composer John Ireland.

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He studied the piano under Benno Moiseiwitsch and Artur Schnabel. From 1925 to 1978 he taught at the Royal Academy of Music.

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He was known as an outspoken advocate of Marxism, holding posts as conductor of the London Labour Choral Union and, from 1936, chairman of the Workers' Music Association.

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This influence can also be seen in many of his works, including the operas Wat Tyler (1948-50) and Men of Blackmoor (1954-55), and his piano concerto which has a communist text declaimed by a male chorus in the last movement.

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