Robin Holloway

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Robin Holloway is a British composer and academic known for his richly textured, often tonally inflected modernist works and his long association with the University of Cambridge.

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Robin Holloway canonical 2

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instanceOf composer
human
musicologist
associatedWith British contemporary classical music
University of Cambridge musical life
compositionalStyle richly textured
tonally inflected modernism
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
educatedAt King's College, Cambridge NERFINISHED
employer Cambridge University
surface form: University of Cambridge
familyName Holloway NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork classical music
music analysis
music composition
genre chamber music
opera
orchestral music
vocal music
givenName Robin NERFINISHED
hasActivity supervising graduate students in music
teaching composition
writing music criticism
influencedBy Benjamin Britten NERFINISHED
Gustav Mahler NERFINISHED
Richard Strauss NERFINISHED
Robert Schumann NERFINISHED
languageOfWork English
memberOf Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge NERFINISHED
movement modernism in music
name Robin Holloway NERFINISHED
nationality British
notableFor integration of tonal and modernist techniques
long association with the University of Cambridge
richly textured orchestration
notableWork Clarissa (opera) NERFINISHED
Gilded Goldbergs NERFINISHED
Scenes from Schumann NERFINISHED
Seascape and Harvest NERFINISHED
Second Concerto for Orchestra NERFINISHED
Violin Concerto NERFINISHED
occupation composer
music critic
university teacher
positionHeld Lecturer in Music at the University of Cambridge
Professor of Musical Composition at the University of Cambridge
Reader in Musical Composition at the University of Cambridge
workLocation Cambridge NERFINISHED
writesAbout 19th-century music
20th-century music

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Thomas Adès studiedUnder Robin Holloway
Judith Weir studiedUnder Robin Holloway