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Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.

Michael Tippett

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Michael Tippett
Age: 93 †
Born: 1905
Born: January 2
Died: 1998
Died: January 9
Autobiographer
Classical Composer
Composer
Conductor
Librettist
Musician
Musicologist
Hillingdon
Sir Michael Kemp Tippett
Left
Ever
Worldwide
Country
Shakespeare
Fascinated
Hardly
Imagination
Though
Reading

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