Book contents
- Elizabeth Maconchy in Context
- Composers in Context
- Elizabeth Maconchy in Context
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Editors’ Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Permissions and Publications
- Bibliographic and In-Text Abbreviations
- Part IEnvironments
- Part IIIntersections
- Part IIIWorks and Legacy
- Coda
- Chapter 33‘We Carry These Legacies’
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 33 - ‘We Carry These Legacies’
from Coda
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 April 2026
Book contents
- Elizabeth Maconchy in Context
- Composers in Context
- Elizabeth Maconchy in Context
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Editors’ Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Permissions and Publications
- Bibliographic and In-Text Abbreviations
- Part IEnvironments
- Part IIIntersections
- Part IIIWorks and Legacy
- Coda
- Chapter 33‘We Carry These Legacies’
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
I was brought up in France and studied there until the age of eighteen. I then got a place at Clare College, Cambridge, where – and this is a very neat connection to Maconchy – I studied with Giles Swayne, who was the son of Maconchy’s cousin. He often talked of her, and her daughter Nicola LeFanu, whom I had the pleasure of meeting a few years later when I performed one of her pieces. Giles talked a lot of Maconchy’s encouragement of him; in turn, he is a huge part of why I’m a composer today. There is something very special about the legacy that composers leave behind them, and how we modern composers work within that legacy. And that’s what I am going to focus on here.
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