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Short Name: | Kenneth Leighton |
Full Name: | Leighton, Kenneth, 1929-1988 |
Birth Year: | 1929 |
Death Year: | 1988 |
Kenneth Leighton; b. Wakefield, October 2, 1929, d. Edinburgh, August 24, 1988, was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire; 1951 grad. of Queen’s College, BMUS; in 1960, awarded Doctorate of Music, Univ. of Oxford; in his career he held various univ. professorships; in 1970, appointed Reid Professor of Music at the Univ. of Edinburgh, which he held until his death in 1988; one of the distinguished British post-war composers; over 100 compositions are published
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DUNOON | Kenneth Leighton (1929-1988) (Composer) | 4 | 55665 45312 31556 |