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Peggy Glanville-Hicks (December 29 1912, Melbourne–June 25 1990, Sydney) was an Australian composer. She spent the years from 1931 to 1936 as a student at the Royal College of Music in London, where she studied with Arthur Benjamin, Constant Lambert, Sir Malcolm Sargent and Ralph Vaughan Williams among others. Her teachers also included Egon Joseph Wellesz|Wellesz. She was later to claim that the idea which opens his Symphony No. 4 (Vaughan Williams)|fourth symphony was taken from her, and it reappears in her 1950s opera The Transposed Heads. After leaving England she lived also in Greece — from 1950 to 1976 — and the United States, where she asked George Antheil to revise his Ballet m??canique for a modern percussion ensemble for a concert she helped to organize (http://www.americanmavericks.com/prog_notes/june_11.html) - before returning to Australia in the 1980s. During this period she was a critic for the New York Herald Tribune, between 1949 and 1958. Important works in her output include the Sinfonia da Pacifica (1952-3), the opera The Transposed Heads in six scenes with a libretto by Thomas Mann (1953? premiered March 27 1954 http://opera.stanford.edu/calendar/04.html), the Etruscan Concerto (1954?), the opera Nausicaa (opera)|Nausicaa with libretto prepared together with Robert Graves in 1956 and produced in 1961 (http://www.amcoz.com.au/comp/g/pghicks.htm) and a Concerto romantico (1957). Her harp sonata (1952) was premiered by Nicanor Zabaleta in 1953.
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