{"id":7230,"date":"2021-11-09T09:05:10","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T08:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/?p=160367"},"modified":"2021-11-09T09:17:12","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T08:17:12","slug":"what-was-the-manchester-school-and-which-composers-were-involved","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/rss_feed\/what-was-the-manchester-school-and-which-composers-were-involved\/","title":{"rendered":"What was The Manchester School and which composers were involved?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Freya Parr\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Tuesday, 09 November 2021 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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In early-1950s Manchester, a group of musicians and composers studying at the Royal Manchester (now Northern) College of Music changed the trajectory of British music. Harrison Birtwistle, Peter Maxwell Davies<\/strong><\/a>, Alexander Goehr, Elgar Howarth and John Ogden became collectively known as The Manchester School, or \u2018New Music Manchester\u2019.<\/p>\n\n<p>These iconoclastic \u2018enfants terribles\u2019 rejected the London traditions of English pastoral music, instead embracing modern tonalities and techniques, more often heard in Europe. They might have gone on to become part of the musical establishment \u2013 look no further than Maxwell Davies\u2019s appointment of Master of the Queen\u2019s Music \u2013 but they maintained their rebellious, uniquely Mancunian attitudes to music-making.<\/p>\n<iframe title=\""Peter\" maxwell=\"\" davies=\"\" first=\"\" fantasia=\"\" on=\"\" an=\"\" in=\"\" nomine=\"\" of=\"\" john=\"\" taverner=\"\" for=\"\" orchestra=\"\" width=\""200"\" height=\""150"\" src=\""https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tReBRXBKoPU?feature=oembed"\" frameborder=\""0"\" allow=\""accelerometer;\" autoplay=\"\" clipboard-write=\"\" encrypted-media=\"\" gyroscope=\"\" picture-in-picture=\"\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\/>\n<p><strong>Read more:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><a href=\""https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/news\/sir-peter-maxwell-davies-dies-aged-81\/"\"><strong>Peter Maxwell Davies dies, aged 81<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\""https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/composers\/best-english-composers\/"\"><strong>The best English composers<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Freya Parr Published: Tuesday, 09 November 2021 at 12:00 am In early-1950s Manchester, a group of musicians and composers studying at the Royal Manchester (now Northern) College of Music changed the trajectory of British music. Harrison Birtwistle, Peter Maxwell Davies, Alexander Goehr, Elgar Howarth and John Ogden became collectively known as The Manchester School, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":7231,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"< 1"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2021\/11\/what-was-the-manchester-school-and-which-composers-were-involved-scaled.jpg",2560,2511,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2021\/11\/what-was-the-manchester-school-and-which-composers-were-involved-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2021\/11\/what-was-the-manchester-school-and-which-composers-were-involved-300x294.jpg",300,294,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2021\/11\/what-was-the-manchester-school-and-which-composers-were-involved-768x753.jpg",768,753,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2021\/11\/what-was-the-manchester-school-and-which-composers-were-involved-1024x1004.jpg",800,784,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2021\/11\/what-was-the-manchester-school-and-which-composers-were-involved-1536x1506.jpg",1536,1506,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2021\/11\/what-was-the-manchester-school-and-which-composers-were-involved-2048x2009.jpg",2048,2009,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Freya Parr Published: Tuesday, 09 November 2021 at 12:00 am In early-1950s Manchester, a group of musicians and composers studying at the Royal Manchester (now Northern) College of Music changed the trajectory of British music. Harrison Birtwistle, Peter Maxwell Davies, Alexander Goehr, Elgar Howarth and John Ogden became collectively known as The Manchester School,…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/7230"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}