Peter Crossley-Holland
English musicologist and composer
About Peter Crossley-Holland
Lived 1916 – 2001 (aged 84). Peter Crossley-Holland was a British ethnomusicologist, musicologist and composer.
Peter Crossley-Holland (28 January 1916 – 27 April 2001 both composed in 1938, won him a composition scholarship at the Royal College of Music, where he was taught by John Ireland. He later he returned to Oxford for a B. Mus. degree. His graduating piece was in the celtic style, "A Song of Saint Columba".
Career From 1948, he was a producer for the BBC Radio classical music station Third Programme,
Personal life He married Joan Mary Cowper in 1939. They had two children, Kevin and Sally.
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English musicologist and composer
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Peter Crossley-Holland was born on 28 January 1916 in London.
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Peter Crossley-Holland died on 17 January 2001 in London.
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Peter Crossley-Holland was an ethnomusicologist, musicologist and composer.
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Peter Crossley-Holland was British.
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