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Sir John Tavener. Inspiration. The composer’s journey through the decades, with a guide to selected compositions. Composition. The composer’s works, recordings, films, books and talks, and where to find them. Life. From Wembley Park to rural Dorset, via Greece and further East. News.
Sir John Tavener (born January 28, 1944, London, England—died November 12, 2013, Child Okeford, Dorset) was a British composer who was strongly influenced by sacred and spiritual texts. Although some critics dismissed his work as lightweight, Tavener drew praise for making classical music accessible to the masses.
Nov 12, 2013 · LONDON (AP) — British composer John Tavener, whose career was boosted with the help of The Beatles and who often is remembered for the elegiac song performed as Princess Diana's coffin was carried out of Westminster Abbey, died Tuesday. He was 69. Tavener's publisher, Chester Music, said he died at his home in Child Okeford, southern England. Born and trained in London, Tavener composed the beautiful "Song for Athene" — reworked as "Songs of Angels" — that caught the public's mood at ...
Nov 12, 2013 · Simone Canetty-Clarke/Courtesy of the artist. British composer Sir John Tavener, whose music became a cultural touchstone that stretched far beyond the classical sphere, has died at age 69. His ...
polyphony. John Taverner (born c. 1490, South Lincolnshire, England—died October 15, 1545, Boston, Lincolnshire) was an English composer known primarily for his sacred works. His music represents the culmination of early 16th-century English polyphony. In 1526 Taverner went to the University of Oxford to become master of the choir in the ...
Feb 15, 2024 · ‘One of the functions of music is to help us to transcend suffering.’ The death of Sir John Tavener in November 2013 was headline news, in a way that the passing of no other contemporary British composer, however eminent and however important his or her contribution to music, would have been.
Nov 13, 2013 · John Kenneth Tavener was born Jan. 28, 1944, in London. At an early age, he studied piano and organ, and began composing works for a Presbyterian church where his father was an organist, according ...
