The Latest Breaking News from Harrison Birtwistle

Goehr, who has died, was a founder of the New Music Manchester group with Harrison Birtwistle and Peter Maxwell Davies, revolutionising the parochial world of British music

One of Britain’s greatest conductors widely admired for leading the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Proms

Two concerts from the festival’s fourth day included tributes to Oliver Knussen and Harrison Birtwistle alongside intriguing electronic shapeshifting from a contemporary ensemble based in Wales

LOS ANGELES — When Harrison Birtwistle died last week at 87, he became the sixth pioneering composer who came to prominence in the 1960s that we lost in less than nine months. This uncompromising British modernist, along with Holland's most important composer, Louis Andriessen, and Americans Frederic Rzewski, George Crumb,…

Stephen Baron writes: His individuality as a composer was relected in his dress

The Observer’s classical music critic pays tribute to a composer whose exacting work was hard-won, but who marvelled at everything from homegrown plums to Dusty Springfield

Harrison Birtwistle, the creator of daringly experimental modern music who was recognized as one of Britain’s greatest contemporary composers, has died at 87. Birtwistle’s publisher, Boosey & Hawkes, said he died Monday at his home in Mere, southwest England.

Our chief classical critic knew Birtwistle, who died this morning, for more than 40 years. He pays tribute to a musician whose creativity and imagination knew no bounds

Harrison Birtwistle, widely recognized as one of Britain’s greatest contemporary composers, has died at 87