Fretwork has been most active in this regard, commissioning George Benjamin, Michael Nyman, Elvis Costello, Sir John Tavener, Orlando Gough, John Woolrich, Tan Dun, Alexander Goehr, Fabrice Fitch, Andrew Keeling, Thea Musgrave, Sally Beamish, Peter Sculthorpe, Gavin Bryars, Barrington Pheloung, Simon Bainbridge, Duncan Druce, Poul Ruders, Ivan Moody, and Barry Guy ; many of these compositions may be heard on their 1997 CD Sit Fast.

Other pupils included Karlheinz Stockhausen in 1952, Alexander Goehr in 1956 – 57, György Kurtág in 1957, Tristan Murail in 1967 – 72 and George Benjamin during the late 1970s.

He took up a post as music adviser at the nearby Bath Academy of Art and invited young composers to his house, including Harrison Birtwistle, Peter Maxwell Davies, Alexander Goehr.

While there he met fellow composers Peter Maxwell Davies and Alexander Goehr, who, together with pianist John Ogdon and conductor Elgar Howarth, formed the New Music Manchester group, dedicated to the performances of serial and other modern works.

* July 11 – July 22 – The Darmstädter Ferienkurse are held in Darmstadt with a series of lectures by Theodor W. Adorno, two public discussions of the new medium of electronic music, and world premieres of works by ( amongst others ) Richard Rodney Bennett, Pierre Boulez, Jacques Calonne, Aldo Clementi, Luc Ferrari, Alexander Goehr, Bengt Hambraeus, Hans Werner Henze, Bruno Maderna, Henri Pousseur, and Karlheinz Stockhausen.

* Alexander Goehr: Chaconne, for organ ( 1985 )

He then read music at King's College, Cambridge, studying under Alexander Goehr, and emerged in his early twenties as a mature and confident voice.

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* Finding the Key: Selected Writings of Alexander Goehr ', ed.

* Goehr, Alexander.

Finding the Key: Selected Writings of Alexander Goehr, edited by Derrick Puffett.

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* Alexander Goehr page on Schott music publishers ' website

* Alexander Goehr – Stageworks / Opera and Music Theatre Archive

* Alexander Goehr page on LoganArts Management's website

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