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Oliver also wrote music for television, including several of the BBC's Shakespeare productions (Timon among those), the soundtrack to the 1986 film Lady Jane, and some chamber and instrumental music. He was a good friend of Simon Callow who commissioned the piece Ricercare No. 4 for vocal quartet Cantabile .
Born 10th March 1950 in Chester, Stephen Oliver was an English composer. He studied with Kenneth Leighton and Robert Sherlaw Johnson at Oxford, where student productions of his first operas, notably The Duchess of Malfi (1971, later completely rewritten), soon brought him to wide attention.
For most of his life Stephen Oliver was able to live as a full-time composer, creating a vast catalogue of works, including incidental music for over fifteen productions by the Royal Shakespeare Company, the West End musical Blondel (1983) to a libretto by Sir Tim Rice, and well over forty operas.
The composer Stephen Oliver, who died hatefully young in 1992 of Aids-related complications, was literally prodigious: when he was still a schoolboy, he wrote a trumpet concerto, a film...
Nov 7, 2014 · I've always loved all of Stephen Oliver's music for the classic 1981 BBC Radio dramatisation of JRR Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. This kind of English pastoral music is in my blood,...
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Nov 8, 2012 · Stephen Oliver’s published music is issued by Chester Novello. But many of his compositions, notably small-scale chamber pieces and songs, remain unpublished. Stephen Oliver’s family have generously presented his archive of music manuscripts and papers to the British Library.
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In his forty two years of life, Stephen wrote more than forty operas and many other works both large and small. To find information about specific works, there are three main sources: 1. There is a comprehensive list of published and unpublished works within the biography 'Friendships in Constant Repair' (see 'News' Section to obtain…
