Marriage
Christopher Finzi married Hilary du Pré, a flautist, in 1961, and they raised their four children in the family's home built by Finzi's parents, the composer Gerald Finzi and his wife Joy an artist, at Ashmansworth near Newbury, England. DuPré's younger sister, the cellist Jacqueline du Pré, was part of the household during the 1970s, and memoir A Genius in the Family, written with her brother Piers, created a storm of controversy when it was revealed that Finzi had had an affair with his sister-in-law. The book later became the film Hilary and Jackie.
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