Anthony Payne, superb British composer who completed Elgar’s Third Symphony using the sketches – obituary
Payne’s own compositions, including A Day in the Life of a Mayfly, were beautifully crafted, lyrical and allied to English Romanticism
2 May 2021 • 12:44pm
Anthony Payne (with Penguin metronome): he was surprised when he won the listeners award in the Radio 3 British Composer Awards
Credit: Eric Roberts
Anthony Payne, who has died aged 84, was a critic, composer and arranger who took a series of fragmentary sketches by Edward Elgar and transformed them into a symphony; the result, which was heard at a televised Prom in 1998, was considered a masterpiece and within four years had received more than 150 performances.
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