John Tavener
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Emerging from a musical family in Wembley, London, he earned a scholarship to Highgate School, sang in BBC-broadcast choirs, and refined his compositional craft at the Royal Academy of Music under Sir Lennox Berkeley, abandoning piano to focus on writing. Early acclaim arrived with the cantata The Whale (1968), recorded by Apple Records, and his subsequent teaching role at Trinity College of Music…
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