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Alan Bush

Alan Bush has been played on NTS shows including Tafelmusik w/ Francesco Fusaro, with Cycle For Declamation first played on 20 January 2024.

Alan Dudley Bush (22 December 1900 –31 October 1995) was a British composer and pianist and committed socialist whose politics were sometimes central themes in his music. Contents

Personal life

Bush was born in Dulwich, London, first attending Highgate School and then the Royal Academy of Music. Later he studied musicology and philosophy in Berlin and later still had lessons with the composer John Ireland. He also studied the piano under Benno Moiseiwitsch and Artur Schnabel. From 1925 to 1978 he taught at the Royal…

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Cycle For Declamation
Peter Pears, Benjamin Britten, Viola Tunnard, Alan Bush, Joan Dickson
Argo1977
Cycle For Declamation
Peter Pears, Benjamin Britten, Viola Tunnard, Alan Bush, Joan DicksonArgo1977
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