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The English musician John McCabe was born on 21 April 1939 at Huyton, Liverpool, and by the time he was eleven, had written thirteen symphonies. He studied in Manchester and Munich and then began his dual career as composer and pianist. His rounded life as a musician included seven years as director of the London College of Music, and he also wrote extensively about music.

McCabe first became known as a pianist, playing music by Arnold Bax, John Corigliano, Franz Joseph Haydn, Paul Hindemith, Alan Rawsthorne and Anton Webern. He recorded the complete Haydn Piano Sonatas for Decca, between 1974 and 1976. He was always very generous in performing the music of other contemporary composers, and was a particular champion of British music.

His Variations on a Theme of Hartmann of 1964 first put him on the map as a composer, and he wrote many concerti, symphonies, ballet scores, brass band works, string quartets and solo instrumental pieces.

Much of his music was commissioned, notably the orchestral song cycle Notturni ed alba by the Hereford Three Choirs Festival for performance in 1970, Rainforest I by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, New York, Cloudcatcher Fells by the Arts Council of Great Britain through Boosey and Hawkes Band Festivals, the ballet score Edward II by Stuttgart Ballet, and the huge two part ballet Arthur by Birmingham Royal Ballet.

McCabe wrote BBC Music Guides 'Bartók's Orchestral Music' (1974) and 'Haydn: Piano Sonatas' (1986), the Novello Short Biography of Rachmaninov (1974) and, for Oxford University Press, Alan Rawsthorne - Portrait of a Composer (1999).

He was awarded the CBE for services to music in 1983, and the Distinguished Musician Award from the Incorporated Society of Musicians in 2004.

John McCabe died in the early hours of  13 February 2015 in Rochester, Kent, following a long battle with a brain tumour.

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