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Agnes Elisabeth Lutyens, CBE (9 July 1906 – 14 April 1983) was an English composer. Early life and education. Elisabeth Lutyens was born in London on 9 July 1906. She was one of the five children of Lady Emily Bulwer-Lytton (1874–1964), a member of the aristocratic Bulwer-Lytton family, and the prominent English architect Sir Edwin Lutyens.
This is a list of compositions by Elisabeth Lutyens (1906–83), a British composer of contemporary classical music. Lutyens's music was published by numerous publishers.
Born in London in 1906, and known for her adaptation of the Schoenbergian serial technique, Elisabeth Lutyens influenced serialism in British music both past and present. Highly regarded by her peers, not least by Igor Stravinsky, Elisabeth was and remains a respected avant-garde artist, and an innovator of serialism itself.
Thirty years after her death, a clearer perspective reveals that she employed the principles of 12-note composition at the service of a highly individual vision, technique being invariably the servant of her often burning inspiration.’. Elisabeth set her sights on becoming a composer, aged nine.
Elisabeth Lutyens, an English composer, was born on July 9th, 1906 in London. Elisabeth was the youngest daughter of architect Sir Edwin Lutyens. While her parents never showed any interest in music, they did make her learn the violin at age eight to stop her nail-biting habit.
Nearly a hundred notebooks belonging to Elisabeth Lutyens (1906-1983) arrived at the British Library earlier this year, in several Sainsbury’s bags-for-life (the extra-large ones, ‘strong and study’ as their elephant illustrations proclaim).
Elisabeth Lutyens: En Voyage – suite for orchestra. Introduction Much has been written about the relative unapproachability of Elisabeth Lutyens’ music. I have often told the story of how hearing a performance of her O saisons, O châteaux! (1946) put me off her work for nearly thirty years.
