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Agnes Elisabeth Lutyens, CBE (9 July 1906 – 14 April 1983) was an English composer. Early life and education. Elisabeth Lutyens was born in London on 9 July 1906. She was one of the five children of Lady Emily Bulwer-Lytton (1874–1964), a member of the aristocratic Bulwer-Lytton family, and the prominent English architect Sir Edwin Lutyens.
This is a list of compositions by Elisabeth Lutyens (1906–83), a British composer of contemporary classical music. Lutyens's music was published by numerous publishers.
Elisabeth Lutyens, an English composer, was born on July 9 th, 1906 in London. Elisabeth was the youngest daughter of architect Sir Edwin Lutyens. While her parents never showed any interest in music, they did make her learn the violin at age eight to stop her nail-biting habit.
Born in London in 1906, and known for her adaptation of the Schoenbergian serial technique, Elisabeth Lutyens influenced serialism in British music both past and present.
When Elisabeth Lutyens looked in on Stravinsky during a BBC rehearsal at Maida Vale in 1959, the great composer rose and embraced her. Someone had sent him a score of her 6 Tempi for 10 Instruments. "That", he exclaimed, "is the music I like!"
English composer Elisabeth Lutyens was born into an aristocratic family in London on 9 July 1906. She wanted to compose from the age of nine, and in 1922 she stayed with Nadia Boulanger pupil Marcelle de Manziarly in Paris for several months and studied at the École Normale de Musique.
Composer and musician; daughter of Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens The daughter of the architect Sir Edwin Lutyens, Elisabeth turned to music at an early age. She studied viola and composition at the Royal College of Music (1926-30), where many of her early compositions were performed.
