Amoeba Music

David Bedford’s versatility and influence may eclipse his fame, but he’s a seminal figure in rock, precisely because he isn’t a rock ‘n’ roll musician at all. However, he arcs across modern composition and progressive rock like a faint yet vivid and connective rainbow — Bedford himself acknowledges he was “the first crossover musician to come over from the classical side,” and he’s entirely correct. His CV makes a brazen leap that few in academia could have imagined in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Bedford was born in London in 1937, to a family of composers, musicians and artists. In his 20s he studied in Italy with famed modernist Luigi Nono, and in the UK with Lennox Berkeley, at the Royal Academy of Music.... Read More

City Of Origin:

London, United Kingdom

Genre:

Classical, Avant-Garde

Birthdate:

08/04/1937

Death date:

10/01/2011