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The return of Nicholas Maw: when his first two operas earned him modest fame and even more modest fortune, he turned his back on the art form. But this month, the composer comes to Covent Garden in grand style with the world premiere of his new work, Sophie's Choice.(Interview)
A true heir to the legacy of Benjamin Britten, Nicholas Maw, born in 1935 in Grantham, Lincolnshire, is a prodigious composer whose music resists easy categorization. From the beginning, he has been unafraid to present music that celebrates tonality yet is forward-looking and inventive. In his youth, Maws compositional eclecticism worked against popular recognition. Rather than slavishly adhering to postwar compositional dogma, he went his own way. Then as now, his music reflects a great love and respect for all aspects of the Western canon, which provides a springboard into his own musical world. Time has proved to be Maw's friend, in that his music has risen from ...
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