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Stephen Michael Harding Oliver (10 March 1950 – 29 April 1992) was an English composer, best known for his operas . Early life and education. Oliver was born on 10 March 1950 in Chester, the son of (Charlotte Hester) (née Girdlestone, born 1911), a religious education adviser, and Osborne George Oliver (born 1903), an electricity board official.
Born 10th March 1950 in Chester, Stephen Oliver was an English composer. He studied with Kenneth Leighton and Robert Sherlaw Johnson at Oxford, where student productions of his first operas, notably The Duchess of Malfi (1971, later completely rewritten), soon brought him to wide attention.
The composer Stephen Oliver, who died hatefully young in 1992 of Aids-related complications, was literally prodigious: when he was still a schoolboy, he wrote a trumpet concerto, a film...
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Stephen Oliver was one of the foremost British composers of opera and music theatre of his generation. Born in 1950, he was already composing at a phenomenal rate while still a boy. In 1968 he read music at Oxford where his teachers were Kenneth Leighton and Robert Sherlaw Johnson.
The full catalogue of Stephen’s published work is also available on the Wise Music website; click this link to access it. https://www.wisemusicclassical.com/composer/1160/Stephen-Oliver/ The British Library. In 2006, the Stephen Oliver archive of original scores and related documents was donated to the British Library.
May 7, 1992 · Stephen Oliver, a prolific English composer of operas, theater music and television sound tracks, died on April 29 in London. He was 42 years old. A spokeswoman for his publisher, Novello &...
