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Sir Lennox Berkley
Berkeley, Sir Lennox (Randall Francis), significant English composer, father of Michael Berkeley; b. Boar's Hill, near Oxford, May 12, 1903; d. London, Dec. 26,1989. He studied French and philosophy at Merton College, Oxford (1922-26); then took lessons in composition with Nadia Boulanger in Paris (1927-32). Returning to London in 1935, he was on the staff of the music dept. of the BBC (1942-45); then was a prof. of composition at the Royal Academy of music in London (1946-68). He was attracted from the beginning by the spirit of neo-Classical music, and his early works bear the imprint of the Paris manner as exemplified by the neo-Baroque formulas of Ravel and Stravinsky; but soon he formed an individual idiom which may be termed "modern English": broadly melodious, richly harmonious, and translucidly polyphonic. He was knighted in 1974.

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Sir Lennox Berkley Berkeley, Sir Lennox (Randall Francis), significant English composer, father of Michael Berkeley; b. Boar's Hill, near Oxford, May 12, 1903; d. London, Dec. 26,1989. He studied French and philosophy at Merton College, Oxford (1922-26); then took lessons in composition with Nadia Boulanger in Paris (1927-32). Returning to London in 1935, he was on the staff of the music dept. of the BBC (1942-45); then was a prof. of composition at the Royal Academy of music in London (1946-68). He was attracted from the beginning by the spirit of neo-Classical music, and his early works bear the imprint of the Paris manner as exemplified by the neo-Baroque formulas of Ravel and Stravinsky; but soon he formed an individual idiom which may be termed "modern English": broadly melodious, richly harmonious, and translucidly polyphonic. He was knighted in 1974.
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