Jonathan Harvey

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Jonathan Harvey (b. 3 May 1939 - d. 5 December 2012) was a British composer. Born in Warwickshire in 1939, Jonathan Harvey was a chorister at St Michael’s College, Tenbury and later a major music scholar at St John’s College, Cambridge. He earned doctorates from the universities of Glasgow and Cambridge and (on the advice of Benjamin Britten) also studied privately with Erwin Stein and Hans Keller. He was a Harkness Fellow at Princeton (1969–70) and Professor of Music at Sussex University between 1977 and 1993, where he remained an Honorary Professor; between 1995 and 2000 he was Professor of Music at Stanford University (US). He was an Honorary Fellow of St. John’s College, Cambridge and was a Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study in Berlin in 2009. An invitation from Boulez to work at IRCAM in the early 1980s set the composer on a path that has characterized his whole career, and which resulted in eight realisations at the Institute, and two for the Ensemble Intercontemporain, including the celebrated tape piece Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco, Bhakti for ensemble and electronics, and the String Quartet No.4, with live electronics. Harvey also composed for most other genres: orchestra (including Tranquil Abiding, White as Jasmine and Madonna of Winter and Spring – the latter performed by the Berliner Philharmoniker and Simon Rattle in 2006), chamber (four string quartets, Soleil Noir/Chitra, and Death of Light, Light of Death, for instance) as well as works for solo instr

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Tombeau de Messiaen, ...

Harvey: Body Mandala, Timepieces, Tranquil Abiding, White as Jasmine & …Towards a Pure Land

Harvey: Tombeau de Messiaen

Mortuos Piango, Vivos Voco: The Essential Works Of Jonathan Harvey

Jonathan Harvey: Deo

Stay The Same

Harvey: Bhakti

Jonathan Harvey: Bird Concerto with Pianosong

Harvey: Complete String Quartets & Trio

Bhakti

Harvey: Speakings

Harvey: Wagner Dream

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