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The piece that had a large influence on me was Turangalila.

~Harrison Birtwistle

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The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.

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People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.

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One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.

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My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.

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My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.

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My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!

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Music is such a problem in the time it takes.

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It's the irrational things that interest me.

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In the end it doesn't matter what you do.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Composer

Born: July 15th, 1934

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