Item #25458 Bust-length portrait photograph of the English composer depicted seated with musical scores in background. Signed. Nicholas MAW.

Bust-length portrait photograph of the English composer depicted seated with musical scores in background. Signed

Ca. 117 x 180 mm.

Signature very slightly smudged, not affecting legibility.

Maw is best known for Scenes and Arias (1962) for three female voices and orchestra, the orchestral pieces Odyssey (1987) and The World in the Evening (1988), the guitar work Music of Memory (1989), a violin concerto (1993) written for Joshua Bell, and the opera Sophie's Choice (2002). His music has been described as neo-romantic but also as modernist and non-tonal (for instance Personæ, his cycle of piano pieces). Wikipedia.

Item #25458

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