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Owen Swindale, 1927-2021. Gifted musician.
Wrote the standard textbook on 16th century polyphony.
Sir Harrison Birtwistle.CH 1934-April 18,2022.
Great English modernist composer.
Boris Brott ,OC,OOnt. 1944-APRIL 5,2022.
Prominent Canadian conductor and music communicator.
Joseph Horovitz 1926-Feb.9th.2022. Versatile,Austrian-British composer.
Inventive, witty and prolific composer in all genres.
Francis Jackson 1917-Jan.10 2022. Organist at York Minster for 37 years.
Music for a long while.
Bernard Haitink,1929-21 Oct.2021. Eloquent, refined Conductor.
Music first, always.
Mikis Theodorakis 1925-2 Sept.2021.
Prominent Greek composer, prolific output of classical forms often using Greek folkstyle. known also as a political firebrand.
R.Murray Schafer. 1933- August 14th. 2021. Composer-Acoustic Ecologist.
A loss to music, a loss to Canada.
Louis Andriessen,1939-1st July,2021. Outstanding composer.
The most influential Dutch composer of his generation.
James Levine, 1943-Mar.9th.2021. Music Director of the Met. for 40 years.
Hung, Drawn and Cultured 