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Walter Beckett
   
Life
1914- ; b. Dublin; musician and music critic of The Irish Times,
1946-52; works include "Symphonic Suite in Three Movements";
"Irish Rhapsody for Symphony Orchestra"; "Suite of Planxties";
"Goldenhair", song cycle to words by James Joyce; "The
Falaingin Dances", for symphony orch.; "Four Higgins Songs",
and a String quartet; also writings on Liszt (Dent), First Harmony
Course; and Ballet Music, with Humphrey Searle; member of Aosdána.
AOS
Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)
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