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Anthony Payne, superb British composer who completed Elgar’s Third Symphony using the sketches – obituary Payne’s own compositions, including A Day in the Life of a Mayfly, were beautifully crafted, lyrical and allied to English Romanticism 2 May 2021 • 12:44pm Anthony Payne (with Penguin metronome): he was surprised when he won the listeners' award in the Radio 3 British Composer Awards  Credit: Eric Roberts Anthony Payne, who has died aged 84, was a critic, composer and arranger who took a series of fragmentary sketches by Edward Elgar and transformed them into a symphony; the resu...

Sunday, May 2, 2021 Anthony Payne completed Elgar 3 (photo: Jane Manning) The British composer best known for completing Elgar’s Third Symphony has died at the age of 84. He was married to the soprano Jane Manning, who died just a month earlier on March 31, from 1966. Together in 1988 they founded Jane’s Minstrels, an ensemble championing modern vocal music. Payne was not generally regarded as a fashionable composer (‘I wanted to marry English late Romanticism with the European avant-garde of the 1960s … Everyone thought I was mad,’ he said); he composed for love, no...

BBC News By Mark Savage image copyrightAnthony Payne image captionThe composer's death comes a month after that of his wife, soprano Jane Manning Composer Anthony Payne, who famously completed Elgar's unfinished Third Symphony, has died at the age of 84. One of Britain's most-respected writers, he was also a renowned critic, whose books on Schoenberg and Frank Bridge became standard texts. His death comes just a month after that of his wife, the soprano Jane Manning. "They were inseparable in life, and I suppose it's not a surprise that he would follow her so soon after," said composer Colin...