England
- Harrison Birtwistle (born 1934)
- Brian Ferneyhough (born 1943) (Ashby 2004a, 3) (Also described as a postmodern composer)
- William Walton (1902–1983)
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Famous quotes containing the word england:
“The instincts of merry England lingered on here with exceptional vitality, and the symbolic customs which tradition has attached to each season of the year were yet a reality on Egdon. Indeed, the impulses of all such outlandish hamlets are pagan still: in these spots homage to nature, self-adoration, frantic gaieties, fragments of Teutonic rites to divinities whose names are forgotten, seem in some way or other to have survived mediaeval doctrine.”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)
“Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.”
—John Milton (1608–1674)
“Though I am not imperial, and though Elizabeth may not deserve it, the Queen of England will easily deserve to have an emperor’s son to marry.”
—Elizabeth I (1533–1603)