Malcolm Williamson

<p>Malcolm Benjamin Graham Christopher Williamson, <a href="/facts/Officer_of_the_Order_of_Australia/rx4oLyAh">AO</a>, <a href="/facts/Commander_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire/HlY9buuN">CBE</a> (21 November 1931 – 2 March 2003) was an Australian composer. He was the <a href="/facts/Master_of_the_Queen%2527s_Music/borvsFJ7">Master of the Queen's Music</a> from 1975 until his death. According to <i><a href="/facts/Grove_Music_Online/hPUXTAum">Grove Music Online</a></i>, although Williamson's earlier compositions aligned with <a href="/facts/Serialism/LtrCaR2t">Serialist</a> techniques, "he later modified his approach to composition in the search of a more inclusive musical language that was fundamentally <a href="/facts/Tonality/vBJp7QcT">tonal</a> and, above all, lyrical. In the 1960s, he was commonly referred to as the most often commissioned composer in Britain, and over his lifetime he produced <a href="/facts/List_of_compositions_by_Malcolm_Williamson/UAjyXqQY">more than 250 works</a> in a wide variety of genres."
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Malcolm Williamson