Alexander Goehr, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Alexander Goehr

English composer

Date of Birth: 10-Aug-1932

Place of Birth: Berlin

Profession: composer, music pedagogue

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Peter Alexander Goehr (German: [gø???]; born 10 August 1932) is an English composer and academic. Goehr was born in Berlin in 1932, the son of the conductor and composer Walter Goehr, a pupil of Arnold Schoenberg.
In his early twenties he emerged as a central figure in the Manchester School of post-war British composers.
In 1955–56 he joined Olivier Messiaen's masterclass in Paris.
Although in the early sixties Goehr was considered a leader of the avant-garde, his oblique attitude to modernism—and to any movement or school whatsoever—soon became evident.
In a sequence of works including the Piano Trio (1966), the opera Arden Must Die (1966), the music-theatre piece Triptych (1968–70), the orchestral Metamorphosis/Dance (1974), and the String Quartet No.
3 (1975–76), Goehr's personal voice was revealed, arising from a highly individual use of the serial method and a fusion of elements from his double heritage of Schoenberg and Messiaen.
Since the luminous 'white-note' Psalm IV setting of 1976, Goehr has urged a return to more traditional ways of composing, using familiar materials as objects of musical speculation, in contrast to the technological priorities of much present-day musical research.