Colin McPhee

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About Colin McPhee

Only the scantest trace remains of the compositions of important Canadian-born American composer Colin McPhee (1901-1964); as he discarded his First Piano Concerto (1924), only the second, his Concerto for Piano with Eight Winds (1928) survives. Married to anthropologist Jane Belo, McPhee moved with her to Bali to live from 1931 to 1936; his most famous work, the orchestral Tabuh-Tabuhan (1936) was the result along with many transcriptions of Balinese music, some of which he later recorded with Benjamin Britten. Alcoholism clouded much of McPhee's later life, but he recovered at the end of it, producing his Symphony No. 2 (1957).

HOMETOWN
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
BORN
1900
GENRE
Classical

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