John McCabe

国籍：英国

出生地：Huyton, Liverpool, Merseyside

生日：1939年04月21

职业：作曲家

音乐类型：古典

John McCabe, CBE (21 April 1939 – 13 February 2015) was a British composer and pianist. He created works in many different forms, including symphonies, ballets, and solo works for the piano. He served as principal of the London College of Music from 1983 to 1990. Guy Rickards described him as "one of Britain’s finest composers in the past half-century" and "a pianist of formidable gifts and wide-ranging sympathies."

荣誉记录：1974–76 – recorded the complete Piano Sonatas of Haydn (reissued later on CD) for Decca/London.

1984 – Rainforest I commissioned by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, New York.

1985 – awarded CBE for services to music.

1995 – premiere of Edward II with Stuttgart Ballet, choreographed by David Bintley.

2003 – Les martinets noirs commissioned by Amsterdam Sinfonietta.

2004 – received Distinguished Musician Award from the Incorporated Society of Musicians.

2014 – Presented with the Ivor Novello Award for Classical Music