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First name: Martin
Last name: Butler
Dates: 1960
Category: Quartet
Nationality: British
Opus name: Sequenze notturno (2004)
Publisher: Oxford Press 978-0-19-355799-4
Peculiarities: See: http://www.goodmusicpublishing.co.uk/info/default.aspx?id=OCR166; also : http://catalog.nypl.org/search~S1?/Xpiano+quartet&searchscope=1&SORT=D/Xpiano+quartet&searchscope=1&SORT=D&SUBKEY=piano+quartet/101%2C3891%2C3891%2CB/frameset&FF=Xpiano+quartet&
Information: Martin Butler was born in 1960 and studied at the University of Manchester and the Royal Northern College of Music. In 1983 he received a Fulbright Award for study at Princeton University, USA, where he was resident until 1987. From September 1998 to July 1999 Martin returned to Princeton as Composer-in-Residence at the Institute for Advanced Study. He is currently Professor of Music at the University of Sussex. His music is inventive and dramatic. Ingenious use of instrumental colours, a keen sense of rhythm, and some exuberant harmonies have meant that his catalogue of works have a distinct and readily identifiable personality.