Colin Matthews

Colin Matthews , OBE (born 13 February 1946) is an English composer of contemporary classical music . Noted for his large-scale orchestral compositions, Matthews is also a prolific arranger of other composer's music, including works by Berlioz , Britten , Dowland , Mahler , Purcell and Schubert . Other arrangements include orchestrations of all Debussy 's 24 Préludes , both books of Debussy's Images , and two movements— Oiseaux tristes and La vallée des cloches —from Ravel 's Miroirs . Having received a doctorate from University of Sussex on the works of Mahler , from 1964–1975 Matthews worked with his brother David Matthews and musicologist Deryck Cooke on completing a performance version of Mahler's Tenth Symphony .

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