John Buller

John Buller

John Buller (born 1927 in London; died 12 September 2004) was a British composer.

Career

John Buller's musical career began at St Matthew's, Westminster, where he was a chorister. Although the BBC accepted a work of his in 1946, he became an architectural surveyor. He returned to music in his thirties, taking his BMus in 1964. He gave up his surveying work for good in the 1970s and was from then on a professional composer.

Perhaps his best known work is "Proença" (1977) for electric guitar, mezzo-soprano and orchestra, which was selected by the 1978 International Rostrum of Composers in Paris. Other works include "The Mime of Mick, Nick and the Maggies" (1978), "The Theatre of Memory" (1981), the opera "BAKXAI" (1992), "Bacchae Metres" (1993) and "Illusions" (1997).

After his death in 2004, BBC Radio 3's contemporary music programme "Hear and Now" devoted an episode to Buller's music.

List of Works

Personal life

One of Buller's sons is the British record producer Ed Buller.


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