Wilfred Josephs
Wilfred Josephs · Arts & Literature
Classical and film composer
1927, Newcastle upon Tyne, England — 1997, London, England
United Kingdom
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Wilfred Josephs was an English composer, one of Britain's most prolific, whose output included 12 symphonies, concertos, operas, ballets and a great deal of film and television music. His Requiem — a setting of the Hebrew Kaddish in memory of Jews murdered in the Holocaust — won the 1963 City of Milan/La Scala international composing prize. He was born to a Jewish family in the Gosforth area of Newcastle upon Tyne.
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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Music
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Classical and film composer
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Music
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