Kenneth Leighton

Short Name: Kenneth Leighton
Full Name: Leighton, Kenneth, 1929-1988
Birth Year: 1929
Death Year: 1988

Kenneth Leighton; b. Wakefield, October 2, 1929, d. Edinburgh, August 24, 1988, was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire; 1951 grad. of Queen’s College, BMUS; in 1960, awarded Doctorate of Music, Univ. of Oxford; in his career he held various univ. professorships; in 1970, appointed Reid Professor of Music at the Univ. of Edinburgh, which he held until his death in 1988; one of the distinguished British post-war composers; over 100 compositions are published

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