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John Beckwith
p, *1947 CA
Musician / Composer of Classical
John Beckwith, CM (born March 9, 1927) is a Canadian composer, writer, pianist, teacher, and administrator.Born in Victoria, British Columbia, he studied piano with Alberto Guerrero at the Toronto Conservatory of Music in 1945. He received a Mus.B. in 1947 and a Mus.M. in 1961 from the University of Toronto. From 1950 to 1951, he studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris.He has written over 130 compositions covering stage, orchestral, chamber, solo and choral genres.In 1987, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada.
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Discography
| Title | Artist | Year | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| River Of Fire | Lawrence Cherney | 1986 | Album |
| Ballade / Theme And Variations On La Bas ⦁ Five Pieces For Piano ⦁ Ballade ⦁ Novellette ⦁ Ballade ⦁ Image Astrale | Charles Foreman / Violet Archer ⦁ John Hawkins ⦁ Jacques Hétu ⦁ John Beckwith ⦁ Oskar Morawetz ⦁ Jean Coulthard | 1984 | Album |
| Sequence: Upper Canadian Hymn Preludes ⦁ Pastourelle ⦁ Sinfonia Notturna ⦁ Séquence | Patrick Wedd / John Beckwith ⦁ Alain Gagnon ⦁ Tālivaldis Ķeniņš ⦁ Denis Lorrain | 1984 | Album |
| I Never Saw Another Butterfly / Poems For Young People / Five Songs | Srul Irving Glick / Harry Freedman / John Beckwith - Maureen Forrester, John Newmark | 1972 | Album |
| The Trumpets Of Summer | John Beckwith - The Festival Singers Of Canada Conducted By Elmer Iseler | 1969 | Album |
| Programme 148 | Pierrette Alarie, Jean Papineau-Couture, John Beckwith, Clermont Pépin | Album |
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