Nicholas Maw
John Nicholas Maw (born November 5, 1935 in Grantham , Lincolnshire , † May 19, 2009 in Washington, DC ) was a British composer .
Life
Maw's parents were Clarence Frederick Maw and Hilda Ellen Kammern. He attended Wennington School, a boarding school in Wetherby , West Yorkshire . His mother died of tuberculosis when he was 14 years old. In 1960 he married Carol Graham, with whom he had a son and a daughter. The marriage ended in divorce in 1976. He lived in Washington DC for the last 24 years with his partner, the ceramic artist Maija Hay .
Nicholas Maw studied from 1955 to 1958 with Paul Steinitz and Lennox Berkeley at the Royal Academy of Music , London , and in Paris with Nadia Boulanger and Schoenberg's student Max Deutsch .
Stations in his career as a university professor were Trinity College in Cambridge , Exeter University and Yale University . Most recently, he was Professor of Composition at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore . For his chamber music work he received the Stoeger Prize in 1993 together with Aaron Jay Kernis .
His opera Sophie's Choice has been performed at the Royal Opera House (London), the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Volksoper Vienna .
Maw died in May 2009 at the age of 73 due to complications of heart failure.
Works
Orchestral works
- Odyssey 1987
- The World in the Evening , 1988
Operas
- Sophie's Choice , 2002
Movies
- Turkey the Bridge , short film 1966
Web links
- Works by and about Nicholas Maw in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Maw, Nicholas |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Maw, John Nicholas (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 5, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Grantham , Lincolnshire |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 19, 2009 |
| Place of death | Washington, DC |