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Barry Anderson, 1935–1987

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Stephen Montague
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Barry Anderson died in Paris on 27 May 1987, a few hours after the first performance of his new chamber work, ARC. His hectic life-style with its incessant demands had burned him out. The immediate cause of death was heart failure, but the real cause was exhaustion from years of overwork as a composer, teacher, concert organizer, ‘ghost’ writer, and pioneer in the dissemination of electro-acoustic music in this country. He was 52 years old and, sadly, just beginning to be recognized as a composer of international stature.

Type
Obituary
Information
Tempo , Issue 166 , September 1988 , pp. 12 - 20
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

References

* In an interview with the present writer conducted on 10 September 1987 for the memorial concert for Barry Anderson broadcast on BBC Radio 3's ‘Music in Our Time’. The passage quoted here was not in fact used in the programme as finally edited.