William Mathias CBE was born on this date in 1934. He was a Welsh composer and while some of his work is meh, some of it is excellent. Mathias started playing piano at a young age and was encouraged by his first teacher to improvise. He later dedicated his first piano concerto to that teacher. Mathias always thought of himself more of a Classical composer than a Modern composer, although he did play with that genre a lot and emulated Stravinsky as much as Mozart.
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