Francis Burt (composer)
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- Composer
- Academic teacher
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| Born | 28 April 1926 London, UK |
| Died | 3 October 2012 (aged 86) |
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Francis Burt (28 April 1926 – 3 October 2012) was a British composer and academic teacher[1] who spent most of his life in Austria. He was professor of composition at the Musikhochschule Wien, and organised the 1 Long Night of New Sounds concert series at the Vienna Konzerthaus. He composed the ballet Der Golem, operas, orchestral works, and music for ensembles and for voices.
Born in London, Burt attended St Edward's School in Oxford in 1944 and 1945 as part of an officer's training. He completed a course as an engineer at Cambridge University and served as a first lieutenant in Nigeria from 1946 to 1947. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music from 1948 to 1951, where he became a composition pupil of Howard Ferguson. He also attended the Summer School of Music at Bryanston and Dartington. Subsequently, he was a student at the Musikhochschule Berlin, studying composition with Boris Blacher.[1]
After spending a year in Rome and London,[2] Burt moved to Vienna in 1956[1] where he knew Gottfried von Einem.[2] From 1973, Burt was professor of composition at the Musikhochschule Wien, where he also headed the Institute for Electroacoustics from 1989 to 1991.[1] He was emerited in 1992.[2] In 1987, Burt was the organiser of the 1 Long Night of New Sounds at the Vienna Konzerthaus.[1]
Burt died in Hartberg, Styria, at the age of 86,[3] and was buried at the Vienna Central Cemetery.[4]
