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British composer William Alwyn (November 7, 1905 - September 11, 1985), born William Alwyn Smith, is what baseball fans like to call a "pheenom". He not only wrote music, he wrote poetry, translated French poetry, and painted, all at a highly impressive level. And he played the flute professionally, joining the London Symphony Orchestra in his ...
William Alwyn. (great-grandfather) Joseph Matthew Alwyn (born 21 February 1991) is an English actor. Alwyn made his feature film debut as the titular character in Ang Lee 's 2016 war drama Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk and has since played roles in films such as The Favourite (2018), Boy Erased (2018), Mary Queen of Scots (2018), and Harriet ...
William Alwyn: A Research and Information Guide is a catalogue, discography and annotated bibliography of the nearly 500 works of this twentieth-century British composer. It will be invaluable to twentieth-century British composer researchers and aficionados, music history courses, and film music courses.
William Alwyn (1905-1985) - Symphony Nº 5 ''Hydriotaphia''
William Alwyn, CBE born William Alwyn Smith (7 November 1905 – 11 September 1985) was an English composer, conductor, and music teacher. William Alwyn was born in Northampton, where he showed an early interest in music and began to learn to play the piccolo. At age 15 he entered the Royal Academy of Music in London where he studied flute and ...
Welcome to the William Alwyn site. William Alwyn (1905 - 1985) was one of our finest composers with a wealth of repertoire from orchestral to film scores, ensemble to choral. NEW RECORDING OF ALWYN EARLY STRING QUARTETS NOS. 6-9 PLUS SEVEN IRISH TUNES PERFORMED BY THE VILLIERS QUARTET TO BE RELEASED ON THE LYRITA LABEL, CATALOGUE NUMBER SRCD386 ...
William Alwyn was born in Northampton on the 7th November 1905, and died in Southwold Suffolk on 11th September 1985. He began his musical studies in 1920, studying flute, piano, and composition at London’s Royal Academy of Music - where in 1926, he was appointed Professor of Composition; a position that he was to retain for almost thirty years.
