NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Lennox Berkeley

He was born in Oxford, England, and educated at Merton College, Oxford. In 1927, he went to Paris to study music with Nadia Boulanger, and there he became acquainted with Francis Poulenc, Igor Stravinsky, Darius Milhaud, Arthur Honegger and Albert Roussel. The French influence would continue to be felt in his music. He worked for the BBC during the Second World War, and later became president of the Performing Rights Society. He was knighted in 1974. He held the chair of Professor of Composition at the Royal Academy of Music from 1946 to 1968, and his pupils there included Richard Rodney Bennett, David Bedford and John Tavener.

His son, Michael Berkeley, is also a composer.

Categories: Composers stubs | 1903 births | 1989 deaths | 20th century classical composers | English composers

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Classical objectivity?. Peter Dale reads 'The Music of Lennox Berkeley' by Peter Dickinson (303 words)
	He envisaged, among others, Lennox Berkeley taking up his rightful place as contemporary and, in some respects, peer of Walton, Tippett, and Britten.
	What Berkeley's reputation needed back then in 1945, and still needs now, are performances, particularly performances which are recorded and become available.
	Now, in the year of the centenary of his birth, the wheel of Berkeley's fortune may be turning at last.

Berkeley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (397 words)
	Berkeley is the name of several places, all eventually deriving from Berkeley Castle in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, UK, from whom the noble family of Berkeley derive their name, and for which several vessels of the British Royal Navy have been christened "HMS Berkeley Castle".
	They honour either Sir William Berkeley, governor of Virginia and co-proprietor of New Jersey, in whose honour Berkeley Plantation in Tidewater Viginia was named; or Bishop George Berkeley.
	"Berkeley" may refer to the University of California, Berkeley, also known as "UC Berkeley" or "Cal"; not to be confused with Berkeley College, which is not Berkeley College, Yale, nor the Berklee College of Music.

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