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Peter Sculthorpe, Australia’s Leading Composer, Dead At 85

PEOPLE Posted: August 8, 2014 1:10 am

“For many, Sculthorpe defined what it meant to be an Australian composer and defined a uniquely Australian sound. … He would become our most acclaimed contemporary composer, admired for pieces like his 1960s series Irkanda – ‘scrub country’ – … and later work such as Kakadu (1988), Memento Mori (1993) and the Rites of Passage, originally commissioned for the opening of the Sydney Opera House.”

PEOPLE Published: 08.08.14

Read the story in Sydney Morning Herald Published: 08.08.14

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