Alexander Goehr (born 1932 in Berlin) is a modern British composer who rose to prominence in the 1960s through his association with fellow avant-garde composers Harrison Birtwistle and Peter Maxwell Davies, who were collectively known as the New Music Manchester Group. Goehr's complex and uncompromising music is a synthesis of old and new techniques, often likely to incorporate Medieval isorhythms or Renaissance counterpoint in Classical forms, and employing a serial, modal, or tonal vocabulary, depending on the expressive need. Goehr's most notable works are The Deluge, the Piano Concerto, the Symphony in One Movement, and the String Quartet No. 2.