Burgon, Geoffrey (b Hambledon, 1941). Eng. composer. Played tpt. in jazz groups and orchs. Original and imaginative user of all the influences and procedures at the disposal of the 20th-cent. composer. High reputation as composer of incid. music for television, e.g. Brideshead Revisited and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Works incl.:OPERA: Hard Times ( Dickens) (1991).MUSIC THEATRE: Epitaph for Sir Walter Raleigh (1968); Joan of Arc (text by Susan Hill) (1970); The Fall of Lucifer (1977); Mirandola (1980–1); Orpheus, sop., ten., bar., bass, male ch., orch. (1982).BALLETS: The Golden Fish (1964); Ophelia (1964); The Calm (1974); Running Figures/Goldberg's Dream (1975); Step at a Time (1976); Persephone (1979); Songs, Lamentations and Praises (1979); Chamber Dances (1982); Mass (1984); The Trial of Prometheus (1988).INCID. MUSIC.: Blood Wedding ( Lorca) (1988).ORCH.: conc. for str. (1963); 5 Pieces for Str. (1967); Gending (1968); Alleluia Nativitas (1970); Cantus Alleluia (1973); Brideshead Variations (1982); tpt. conc. (1993); The Turning World, tpt., perc., str. (1993).VOICE(S) AND ORCH.: Acquainted with Night, counterten., str., harp, perc. (1965); Think on Dredful Domesday (1969); Magnificat (1970); The Golden Eternity (1970); Requiem, sop., counterten., ten., ch., orch. (1976); Veni Spiritus, sop., bar., ch., and orch. (1978–9); Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis, 2 sop., tpt., org., str. (1979); Hymn to St Thomas of Hereford, ch., orch. (1981); The World Again, sop., orch. (1982–3); Revelations, sop., ten., bar., ch., orch. (1984); Title Divine, sop., orch. (1986); A Vision, ten., str. (1991).VOICE(S) & PIANO or ENSEMBLE: Cantata on Mediaeval Latin Texts, counterten., fl., ob., bn. (1964); Hymn to Venus, mez. and pf. (1966); 5 Sonnets of Donne, sop., mez., fl., ob., cl., hn., pf., timp., vc. (1967); Songs of Mary, mez., va., pf. (1970); At the Round Earth's Imagined Corners, sop., tpt., org. (1971); Worldës Blissë, counterten. and ob. (1971); Threnody, ten., pf., hpd. (1971); This Endris Night, ten., female vv., brass (1972); Dira vi amores terror, counterten. (1973); Canciones del Alma, 2 counterten. and 13 solo str. (1975); The Fall of Lucifer, ten., bar., counterten., ch., and ens. (1977); Lunar Beauty, counterten, lute (1986); Nearing the Upper Air, counterten., rec., vc., hpd. (1988).CHORAL: 3 Elegies (1964); Short Mass (1965); Farewell Earth's Bliss, 6 solo vv. (1966); 5 Allelluias, 6 solo vv. (or brass) (1970); A Prayer to the Trinity (1972); The Fire of Heaven, triple ch. (1973); Dos Coros, 12 solo vv. (1975); But Have Been Found Again, sop., alt., ch. (1983); The Names of the Hare, ch. (1985); The Song of the Creatures, ch., org. (1987); Prayer to St Richard, ch. (1989); Songs of the Creation, ch., org. (1989).CHAMBER MUSIC: ob. qt. (1980); Sanctus Variations, 2 tpts., org. (1980); Chamber Dances (1981–2); Little Missenden Variations, cl., ca., hn., bn. (1984).