Nicholas Maw

Nicholas Maw (born 1935) is a British composer.

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Nicholas Maw is best known for his gigantic orchestral piece Odyssey (1987), the guitar work Music of Memory (1989), and a violin concerto (1993) for Joshua Bell. Although his musical language has often been described as 'neo-romantic', being in the extended tonal vocabulary grounded in the practice of Edward Elgar, Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss, much of his work has also explored more modernistic and so-called atonal languages, such as the on-going cycle of piano pieces, Personae.

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1987 - 1989 - 1993 - Joshua Bell - Neo-romantic - Edward Elgar - Gustav Mahler - Richard Strauss - Atonal

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Maw's Sophie's Choice (2002), a large-scale opera based on the book of the same name by William Styron, was co-commissioned by the BBC's Radio 3 and the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden, and was premiered by the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden in November, 2002, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle.

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2002 - Opera - William Styron - BBC - Radio 3 - Royal Opera House - Covent Garden - Simon Rattle

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Nicholas Maw is currently a member of the composition faculty at the Peabody Conservatory of Music of the Johns Hopkins University.

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Peabody Conservatory of Music - Johns Hopkins University

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