Michael Hurd: The Aspern Papers & The Night of the Wedding
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SKU: NX.SRCD2350

By Clare McCaldin, Garry Humphreys, George Vass, Louise Winter, Matthew Buswell, Nicholas Morton, Owen Gilhooly, Pippa Goss, Rhian Lois, Ronald Corp, Simon Lepper, and Ulster Orchestra. By Michael Hurd. Classical. 2 listening CDs. Published by Naxos (NX.SRCD2350).

Michael Hurd was born in Gloucester on 19 December 1928. He studied at Pembroke College, Oxford (1950-53) with Sir Thomas Armstrong and Dr Bernard Rose and became President of the University Music Society. In addition, he took composition lessons from Lennox Berkeley. Following a six-year term (1953-59) as Professor of Music Theory at the Royal Marines School of Music in Deal, he settled in West Liss, Hampshire, dedicating the rest of his life to a variety of musical pursuits - composing, writing, conducting, lecturing and broadcasting. He travelled widely and was a frequent visitor to Australia where he helped to found the Port Fairy Music Festival which staged the first performances of his last two operas. He died in Petersfield, Hampshire on 8 August 2006, at the age of 78.

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