Denis Apivor

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Denis ApIvor was a British composer. He belonged to the generation of modernists that included Humphrey Searle and Elisabeth Lutyens. Born in County Westmeath, Ireland, to Welsh parents, he went to Hereford Cathedral School then studied medicine in London, but had pursued the study of music from an early age. He studied composition with Alan Rawsthorne and Patrick Hadley. His most successful early works included a setting of T. S. Eliot's The Hollow Men, several ballets, including A Mirror for Witches and Blood Wedding, and an opera, Yerma. Around 1960, he began composing in a serialist style, and this continued until the late 1980s, when he returned to diatonic composition.