Geoffrey Burgon (16 July 1941 - ) is a British composer, famous for television and film themes. Jump to: navigation, search July 16 is the 197th day (198th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 168 days remaining. ... 1941 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Burgon taught himself the trumpet in order to join a jazz band at school. He entered the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with the intention of becoming a trumpet player. However he found that he was more interested in composition. Burgon initially supported himself and his family as a freelance trumpeter, until at the age of 30 he sold all his trumpets and devoted himself to composing. The GSMD seen across the Barbican lake. ...

In 1976 his Requiem was critically acclaimed the Three Choirs Festival. Shortly after he also began writing for film and television, including the Nunc Dimittis as the score for Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and the phenomenonly successful score for Brideshead Revisited. The full list is: The Three Choirs Festival is a British music festival, held alternately at the cathedrals of Hereford, Gloucester and Worcester. ... Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is a spy novel by John le Carré, published in 1974. ... Jump to: navigation, search Brideshead Revisited is a novel by Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1945. ...

• Island at War (2004) (mini TV Series)
• The Forsyte Saga (2002 & 2003) (mini TV Series)
• Ghost Stories for Christmas (2000) (mini TV Series)
• Longitude (2000) (TV)
• Cider with Rosie (1998) (TV)
• When Trumpets Fade (1998) (TV)
• Silent Witness (1996) TV Series (1996)
• Martin Chuzzlewit (1994) (mini TV Series)
• A Foreign Field (1993)
• Robin Hood (1991) (TV)
• The Silver Chair (1990) (TV)
• Chronicles of Narnia (1988 & 1989) (TV)
• The Happy Valley (1987) (TV)
• Turtle Diary (1985)
• Bleak House (1985) (mini TV Series)
• Bewitched (1985) (TV)
• The Death of a Heart (1985) (TV)
• Soft Targets (1982) (TV)
• How Many Miles to Babylon? (1982) (TV)
• Brideshead Revisited (1981) (mini TV Series)
• The Dogs of War (1981)
• Testament of Youth (1979) (mini TV Series)
• Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1979) (mini TV Series)
• Life of Brian (1979)
• As You Like It (1978) (TV)
• Treasure of Abbot Thomas (1974) (TV) (as Geoffrey Burgen)
• The Letter (1969) (TV)
• Doctor Who: Terror of the Zygons (1975); The Seeds of Doom (1976) TV Series

In addition to television and film work, Burgon has composed many other pieces including: This article is about a TV series. ... Jump to: navigation, search Brideshead Revisited is a novel by Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1945. ... Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is a spy novel by John le Carré, published in 1974. ... Life of Brian is a film from 1979 by Monty Python which deals with the life of Brian (played by Graham Chapman), a young man born at the nearly the same time as, and in a manger right down the street from Jesus. ... Main article: History of Doctor Who Doctor Who first appeared on BBC television at 5:15 p. ... Terror of the Zygons is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from August 30 to September 20, 1975 // Synopsis The Loch Ness monster is let loose. ... The Seeds of Doom is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in six weekly parts from January 31 to March 6, 1976. ...

• Requiem (1976
• The Calm (contemporary dance)
• Running Figures (contemporary dance)
• At the round Earth's imagined Corners (setting of John Donne's peotry)
• The Fire of Heaven (setting of Traherne's poetry)
• Title Divine, an orchestral song cycle (1987)
• Theatrical scores for Macbeth (1987), Murder in the Cathedral (1988) and Blood Wedding (1988)
• A Vision, (song cycle to poems by John Clare) (1991)
• The Turning World(a trumpet concerto) (1993)
• The Fall of Lucifer (orchestra & chorus)(1994)
• First was the World
• City Adventures (concerto for percussion) (1996)
• Singapore Concerto (1997)
• Clarinet quintet (1997)
• Merciless Beauty (counter-tenor and orchestra) (1997)

John Donne (pronounced Dun; 1572 – March 31, 1631) was a major English poet and writer, and perhaps the greatest of the metaphysical poets. ... John Clare (July 13, 1793 - May 20, 1864), English poet, commonly known as the Northamptonshire Peasant Poet, the son of a farm labourer, was born at Helpston near Peterborough. ...

External links

• Biography
• Geoffrey Burgon's homepage