Download Famous British musicians

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English composer
 Opera
“Dido and Aeneas” (1689)
 Music
for theatrical performances
 Hymns
 Songs
 Musical
compositions
an English composer,
pianist, conductor;
 born, in Lowestoft,
Suffolk, England;
 father - a dentist;
 the youngest of four
children (a brother
and two sisters)
 was educated locally;
 studied first piano
and then viola from
private teachers;
 began to compose in
1919;
 entered the Royal
College of Music in
London in 1930;
 won several prizes for
his compositions;
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met tenor Peter Pears (1937);
sailed for North America in 1939;
operas:
“Peter Grimes” (1945)
“Albert Herring” (1947)
“A Midsummer Night’s dream” (1960)
“Billy Budd” (1951)
“The Turn of the Screw”(1954)
“Death in Venice” (1973);
the War Requiem (1961);
founded the English Opera Group in 1947;
founded the Aldeburgh Festival in 1948;
developed close friendship with D.Shostakovich and M.
Rostropovich in the 1960s;
awarded the Order of Merit in 1965;
created a Life Peer in 1976;
buried in the churchyard of the Aldeburgh Parish Church.
 an English singer;
 began to develop his
singing and acting
talents during his school days at
Lancing College;
 began his professional career with the
BBC Singers in 1934;
 met the composer Benjamin Britten in
1937;
 shared three years in America (1939 –
1942) with B.Britten;
 developed his career as a soloist,
making his operatic debut in The Tales
of Hoffman;
 created the title role in Britten's Peter
Grimes in 1945.
 Full
name is John Robert Cocker
 He was born on the 20th of May in 1944 in
Sheffield, South Yorkshire
 He is an English singer working in genre of
Blues and Rock
 His famous ballads are: «My Father’s Son»,
«NIGHT CALLS» , «Unchain My Heart», «You
Can Leave Your Hat On», «Now That The
Magic Has Gone»
 His
original name is Reginald Kenneth Dwight
 He was born on the 25th of March in 1947 in
Pinner, England
 He is a famous English rock singer, composer
and pianist
 He is also known as a social activist. In 1980
he began the fight against the AIDS
John Lennon
Paul McCartney
Georg Harrison
Ringo Starr
 British
rock group from Liverpool
 The group was formed in 1950 an first was
called as “Blackjacks”
 In
the April of 1960 when McCartney was
taken in the group, it was renamed as
“Beatles”
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1963 Please, please Me
1963 With The Beatles
1964 A Hard Day’s Night
1964 Beatles For Sale
1965 Help!
1965 Rubber Soul
1966 Revolver
1967 Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
1967 Magical Mystery Tour
1968 The Beatles
1969 Yellow Submarine
1969 Abbey Road
1970 Let It Be