Alexander Goehr

Alexander Goehr (born 1932 in Berlin) was a British composer who rose to prominence in the 1960s through his association with fellow avant-garde composers Harrison Birtwistle and Peter Maxwell Davies, who were collectively known as the New Music Manchester Group. Goehr's complex and uncompromising music was a synthesis of old and new techniques, often likely to incorporate Medieval isorhythms or Renaissance counterpoint in Classical forms and employing a serial, modal, or tonal vocabulary, depending on the expressive need. Goehr's most notable works were The Deluge, the Piano Concerto, the Symphony in One Movement, and the String Quartet No. 2, and he remained active into his nineties. Goehr died in Cambridgeshire on August 26, 2024.