Walter Beckett
Walter Beckett may refer to: * Walter Beckett (composer) (1914–1996), Irish composer * W. N. T. Beckett Captain Walter Napier Thomason Beckett, MVO, DSC (1893 – 1941) was a noted Royal Navy officer in both the First World War and the Second World War. He was known to most people as "Joe" Beckett, after a famous British boxer of the same er ...

Walter Beckett (composer)
Walter Keohler Beckett (27 July 1914 – 3 April 1996) was an Irish composer, teacher and music critic. He was a cousin of the writer Samuel Beckett. Life Beckett was born in Dublin. His parents were Elizabeth Ethel Beckett (née Keller) and James Beckett, politician and builder. He studied organ with George Hewson and harmony with John F. Larchet at the Royal Irish Academy of Music (RIAM), in addition to music at Trinity College Dublin where he was conferred with a Mus.D. (Doctor of Music) in 1942.Axel Klein: "Beckett, Walter", in: ''The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland'', edited by Harry White and Barra Boydell (Dublin: UCD Press, 2013). He lived from 1946 to 1963 in Venice, where he taught English and piano; he also wrote reviews from abroad for the Irish Times and made a series of orchestral arrangements of Irish traditional music for Radio Éireann. In 1963 he moved to England, where he taught music at various schools before returning to Ireland in 1970 to succeed A.J. ...
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