Bill Hopkins
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G.W. (Bill) Hopkins (5 June 1943 – 10 March 1981) was a British composer, pianist and music critic.
Hopkins was born in Prestbury, Cheshire; his mother was educationally subnormal and unable to look after him, and he was raised by aunts. An encounter with Luigi Nono at Dartington consolidated his interest in serialism; subsequently he studied at Oxford University with Edmund Rubbra and Egon Wellesz.
In 1964 he went to Paris, ostensibly to study with Olivier Messiaen but with the prime objective of meeting and studying with Jean Barraqué. Returning to England, he supported himself by translation and writing music criticism. Subsequently he taught at Birmingham University and University of Newcastle upon Tyne before succumbing to a heart attack, in Chopwell, near Newcastle, England, at the age of 37.
[edit] References
- Nicolas Hodges, 'The Music of Bill Hopkins: a preliminary approach', Tempo No.186, September 1993
- Sadie (ed.) The New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians, Vol. 8, 1980
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