p, *1932 GB, Berlin
Musician / Composer / Conductor of Classical
Alexander Goehr (born 10 August 1932) is an English composer and academic.Goehr was born in Berlin in 1932, the son of the conductor and Schoenberg pupil Walter Goehr. In his early twenties he emerged as a central figure in the Manchester School of post-war British composers. In 1955–56 he joined Olivier Messiaen's masterclass in Paris. Although in the early sixties Goehr was considered a leader of the avant-garde, his oblique attitude to modernism—and to any movement or school whatsoever—soon became evident. In a sequence of works including the Piano Trio (1966), the opera Arden Must Die (1966), the music-theatre piece Triptych (1968–70), the orchestral Metamorphosis/Dance (1974), and the String Quartet No. 3 (1975–76), Goehr's personal voice was revealed, arising from a highly individual
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Title | Artist | Year | Type |
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Since Brass, Nor Stone... | Alexander Goehr - Colin Currie, Pavel Haas Quartet, The Nash Ensemble | 2013 | Album |
Marching To Carcassonne | Alexander Goehr — Peter Serkin | 2013 | Album |
Little Symphony / String Quartet no. 2 / Piano Trio | Alexander Goehr, Orion Trio, The Allegri String Quartet, The London Symphony Orchestra / Norman Del Mar | 2008 | Compil. |
Symmetry Disorders Reach | Alexander Goehr, Huw Watkins | 2007 | Album |
Behold The Sun, Metamorphosis / Dance, Romanza and other works | Alexander Goehr - Moray Welsh, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra / David Atherton, Jeanine Thames, London Sinfonietta / Oliver Knussen | 2003 | Compil. |
Piano Concerto / Symphony In One Movement | Alexander Goehr, Peter Serkin, London Sinfonietta / Oliver Knussen | 1995 | Album |
Romanza For Cello And Orchestra / Symphony In One Movement | Alexander Goehr — Jacqueline Du Pré, Daniel Barenboim, New Philharmonia Orchestra | 1993 | Album |
Sing, Ariel The Mouse Metamorphosed Into A Maid | Alexander Goehr - Lucy Shelton, Eileen Hulse, Sarah Leonard, Oliver Knussen | 1992 | Album |
...A Musical Offering (J.S.B. 1985) / Behold The Sun / Lyric Pieces / Sinfonia | Alexander Goehr, Jeanine Thames, London Sinfonietta Conducted By Oliver Knussen | 1991 | Album |
Piano Sonata / Capriccio / Nonomiȳa | Peter Maxwell Davies / Alexander Goehr - Stephen Pruslin | 1983 | Album |
The Law Of The Quadrille Is Clear (Songs After Franz Kafka) / String Quartet No 3 | Alexander Goehr, Susan Kessler And Roger Vignoles / The Lindsays | 1983 | Album |
Metamorphosis / Dance. Romanza For Cello And Orchestra | Alexander Goehr - Moray Welsh, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, David Atherton | 1982 | Album |
Piano Trio / String Quartet No. 2 | Alexander Goehr - Orion Trio / The Allegri String Quartet | 1973 | Album |
Alexander Goehr: Violin Concerto, Op. 13 / Iain Hamilton: Violin Concerto, Op. 15 | Alexander Goehr, Iain Hamilton, Manoug Parikian, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Norman Del Mar | 1972 | Album |
Modern British Piano Music | Alan Rawsthorne / Christopher Headington / Alexander Goehr / Robert Sherlaw Johnson / David Blake, John Ogdon | 1970 | Album |
Concerto For Orchestra / Little Symphony, Op.15 | Sir Michael Tippett, Alexander Goehr, The London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis, Norman Del Mar | 1965 | Album |
Concerto For Orchestra / Little Symphony, Op.15 | Sir Michael Tippett, Alexander Goehr, The London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis, Norman Del Mar | 1965 | Album |
Four British Composers | Peter Maxwell Davies, Alexander Goehr, Richard Rodney Bennett, Malcolm Williamson | 1965 | Album |