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Hugh Wood (born 27 June 1932) is a British composer. BiographyWood was born in Parbold, Lancashire and grew up in a musical family; while still a teenager, he was encouraged by the composer Alan Bush. He says that his "earliest enthusiasm was Bach... and that's been at the center of everything ever since."[1] After military service in Egypt, he studied History at New College, Oxford, where he dedicated much of his time to music and writing compositions for the theatre. In 1954, he moved to London to study composition privately with William Lloyd Webber, Anthony Milner, Iain Hamilton, and Mátyás Seiber. He also started a parallel career as a music teacher by finding work in schools, including Morley College, and as a lecturer at the Royal Academy of Music.[2][3] In 1958 Wood composed his first published work: a set of variations for viola and piano showing the influence of Schoenberg and thematic references to Beethoven, which was premiered by Cecil Aronowitz.[3] His first orchestral work, Scenes from Comus (with soloists and chorus), was commissioned by the BBC and composed between 1962 and 1965.[4] Its premiere at the 1965 BBC Proms provided Wood with a public success.[2] {{Expand section|date=June 2012}}Wood's works are always cogently constructed, knitting together densely wrought counterpoint with rigorous motivic working, sometimes using a personalized serialist language.[5] His music commands a broad communicative range: it can be violently expressionistic, poignantly lyrical, or even, as in the jazz inflected Piano Concerto, exuberantly rhythmic. Wood likes to compose slowly and he typically prefers chamber music genres, though several of his large-scale works, such as his Symphony and Violin Concerto, are amongst his best known.[2][3][4] In recent years he has contributed several articles on music to The Times Literary Supplement. In 2007 his collected writings on music, Staking Out the Territory was published by Plumbago Books and the following year Ashgate Books published The Music of Hugh Wood by Edward Venn. Career highlights
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References1. ^In conversation with Robert Worby on BBC Radio 3's Hear and Now program (broadcast 16 June 2012) 2. ^1 2 {{GroveOnline|title=Hugh Wood|author=Thurlow, Jeremy|access-date=6 June 2012}} 3. ^1 2 {{Cite web | author=MacDonald, Malcolm | title = Hugh Wood: Chamber Music | url = http://www.toccataclassics.com/cddetail.php?CN=TOCC0075 | publisher = Toccata Classics | year = 2009 | accessdate = 6 June 2012 }} 4. ^1 {{Citation |author=Walsh, Stephen |author2=Northcott, Bayan |year=2001 |title=Symphony – Scenes from Comus |publisher=NMC Recordings |publication-place= |page= |url= |accessdate= 6 June 2012 }} 5. ^{{cite book|last=Venn|first=Edward|title=The Music of Hugh Wood|year=2008|publisher=Ashgate|location=Aldershot and Burlington, Vt|isbn=0-7546-5029-4|page=xii}} External links
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