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Lyell Cresswell

Born: 13th October 1944, Wellington, NZ

Nationality: New Zealander

Lyell Richard Cresswell was a New Zealand composer of contemporary classical music. He was the younger brother of philosopher Max Cresswell. Cresswell studied in Wellington, Toronto, Aberdeen and Utrecht and lived and worked in Edinburgh from 1985 on. Although he lived more than half his life away from New Zealand, he regarded himself as a New Zealander.

Cresswell died from liver cancer, complicated by COVID-19.

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