Michael Tippett
Michael Tippett
Sir Michael Kemp Tippett OM CH CBEwas an English composer who rose to prominence during and immediately after the Second World War. In his lifetime he was sometimes ranked with his contemporary Benjamin Britten as one of the leading British composers of the 20th century. Among his best-known works are the oratorio A Child of Our Time, the orchestral Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli, and the opera The Midsummer Marriage...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth2 January 1905
changed poetry-is extras
Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.
moving strange remains
Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you.
art native-american score
Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.
nostalgic
I've seldom become nostalgic or settled.
made interest
I'm outside the music I've made. I have no interest in it.
thinking odd
I think we're all pretty odd.
art integrity conspiracy
I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth and integrity for those who practise it honestly, decently and with all their being.
giving imagination intellectual
My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical.
character form theater
Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater.