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Sir Michael Kemp Tippett

(1905-1998), Composer

Sitter in 25 portraits
Tippett attended the Royal College of Music (1923-1928), and was recognised as one of Britain's leading composers with the premiere of his three-part oratorio A Child of our Time, at the Adelphi Theatre in 1944. He enjoyed a long career, composing choral works, symphonies, concertos, string quartets and operas; finding inspiration in Beethoven, Elizabethan madrigals, folk, jazz and blues. In the early 1940s, while director of music at Morley College, he became friends with Britten and Pears, going on to write Boyhood's End for them in 1943. Tippett composed a total of six operas, including the greatly successful King Priam (1962). Appointed a CBE in 1959, he was knighted in 1966.

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Sir Michael Kemp Tippett
by Douglas Glass
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Sir Michael Kemp Tippett
by Gertrude Hermes
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Sir Michael Kemp Tippett
by J.S. Lewinski
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Sir Michael Kemp Tippett
by Arnold Newman
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Sir Michael Kemp Tippett
by Martin Rose
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Sir Michael Kemp Tippett
by Cecil Beaton
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Sir Michael Kemp Tippett
by Georges Maiteny
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Members of the 'Sound Broadcasting Society' including Laurence Olivier, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Sir Michael Kemp Tippett
by Central Press
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Sir Michael Kemp Tippett; Benjamin Britten
by Erich Auerbach
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Sir Michael Kemp Tippett
by Ferenc Berko
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Sir Michael Kemp Tippett
by Walter Bird
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Sir Michael Kemp Tippett
by Michael Ward
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Sir Michael Kemp Tippett
by Denis Waugh
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Sir Michael Kemp Tippett
by Neil Drabble
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Sir Michael Kemp Tippett
by Hubert Leslie
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Sir Michael Kemp Tippett
by Cecil Beaton
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Related People

Sydney Gordon Tippett (uncle)

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London

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