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Harrison Birtwistle
(1934 -)

Harrison Birtwistle



British avant-garde composer; co-founder of the Pierrot Players for whom he wrote much of his work. Member of the New Manchester Group (formed to study and perform advanced types of contemporary music) who is noted for his savagely dissonant works.
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