Peter Sculthorpe : the making of an Australian composer (2007)

by Graeme Skinner

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Peter Sculthorpe, who died in 2014, remains Australia's best-known composer and is widely held to be the most important creative musical spirit the country has produced. Beautifully written and fastidiously researched, this authorized biography provides an insight into Sculthorpe's formation years: his quest for personal voice, and his arrival - through many creative friendships and collaborations - at a place in the collective heart of the nation.… (more)

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2007

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Late in the night during his forty-fifth birthday party in 1974, Peter Sculthorpe, 'much the worse for wear … broke down, saying he was a failure, and that he'd achieved nothing'.

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Edna Moorhouse was a month shy of seventeen when her brother Tom went off to World War 1.

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In an article in Quadrant in 1964, Curt Prerauer was adamant: 'Australia cannon create great composers'.

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Peter Sculthorpe, who died in 2014, remains Australia's best-known composer and is widely held to be the most important creative musical spirit the country has produced. Beautifully written and fastidiously researched, this authorized biography provides an insight into Sculthorpe's formation years: his quest for personal voice, and his arrival - through many creative friendships and collaborations - at a place in the collective heart of the nation.

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