Minuet for Stephen

The Contemporary Recorder. Series Editor - John Turner.

*Contemporary Work.* Includes a page of notes on the composer in English only.

1. Minuet for Stephen

John Gardner, CBE (2 March 1917 – 12 December 2011) was an English composer of classical music. .John Gardner is one of the most distinguished composers of his generation. He was born in Manchester in 1917 and spent his childhood in North Devon, where his family had practiced medicine for three generations. After a brief spell as Director of Music at Repton School, he joined the RAF in 1940, where he served successively as dance band pianist, bandmaster and navigator. On demobilization in 1946 he joined the music staff at the Royal Opera house, leaving at the end of 1952 to pursue a freelance career as a composer, teacher, pianist and conductor. He was awarded the CBE in 1976. 

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