English composer (born 1936)

Anthony Payne

Anthony Edward Payne was an English composer, music critic and musicologist. He is best known for his acclaimed completion of Edward Elgar's third symphony, which gained wide acceptance into Elgar's oeuvre. Payne is particularly noted for his chamber music, much of which was written for his wife, the soprano Jane Manning, and the couple's new music ensemble Jane's Minstrels. Initially an unrelenting proponent of modernist music, by the 1980s his compositions had embraced aspects of the late English romanticism, described by his colleague Susan Bradshaw as "modernized nostalgia".

Born

1936

August 2

Died

2021

Era

1930s

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-338 A Macedonian army led by Philip II defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony in Greece and the Aegean.
-216 The Carthaginian army led by Hannibal defeats a numerically superior Roman army at the Battle of Cannae.
-49 Caesar, who marched to Spain earlier in the year, leaving Marcus Antonius in charge of Italy, defeats Pompey's general Afranius and Petreius in Ilerda (Lerida) north of the Ebro river.
461 Majorian is arrested near Tortona (northern Italy) and deposed by the Suebian general Ricimer as puppet emperor.

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The world in 1936

When Anthony arrived

april 15 First day of the Arab revolt in Mandatory Palestine.
april 19 The Jaffa riots commence, initiating the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine.
april 27 The United Auto Workers (UAW) gains autonomy from the American Federation of Labor.
april 3 Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., the infant son of pilot Charles Lindbergh.

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Silvio Berlusconi 1936–2023 Italian businessman and politician, Prime Minister of Italy (born 1936) Anthony Lester 1936– Baron Lester of Herne Hill, English lawyer and politician (died 2020) Antonin Scalia 1936–2016 American lawyer and judge, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (born 1936) B. J. Habibie 1936–2019 Indonesian engineer and politician, 3rd President of Indonesia (died 2019) Bill Mazeroski 1936– American baseball player and coach (died 2026) Bobby Ross 1936– American football player and coach Brian Blessed 1936– English actor Canaan Banana 1936–2003 Zimbabwean minister and politician, 1st President of Zimbabwe (died 2003) Carl Icahn 1936– American businessman and investor

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