Gordon Crosse Death – Cause of Death – English composer Gordon Crosse sadly died in November 2021. Gordon was born on the 1st of December 1937 in Bury, Lancashire, where his father worked for the Midland Bank. Crosse has been suffering from illness for much of his life. Gordon’s father was an amateur pianist, organist and cellist, and also an ingenious amateur inventor and engineer.
Crosse worked in many reputable places including at the Universities of Essex, Cambridge and California. He also taught part-time at the Royal Academy of Music in London for two years but then retired to his Suffolk home to compose full-time. He won the Worshipful Company of Musicians’ Cobbett Medal for services to music in 1976. Crosse was a very talented composer who wrote the music for King Lear, the 1983 television production of Shakespeare’s play, in which Laurence Olivier played the title role, and for which the celebrated actor won the last of his five Emmy Awards.
Divine Art Records said in a tweet; “We were saddened to hear today of the passing of composer Gordon Crosse. It is our honor to share a wonderful blog from John Turner written in tribute…”
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