Melanie Ruth Daiken (27 July 1945 - 25 June 2016) was an English composer and music educator. She was born in London, the daughter of a Canadian mother and Leslie Daiken, a Russian-Jewish writer from Ireland. She began violin lessons at an early age, and studied piano and composition at the

Royal Academy of Music The Royal Academy of Music (RAM) in London, England, is the oldest conservatoire in the UK, founded in 1822 by John Fane and Nicolas-Charles Bochsa. It received its royal charter in 1830 from King George IV with the support of the first Duke of ...

, the University of Ghana, and the Paris Conservatoire with Yvonne Loriod and

Olivier Messiaen Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen (, ; ; 10 December 1908 – 27 April 1992) was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist who was one of the major composers of the 20th century. His music is rhythmically complex; harmonically ...

. After completing her studies, she took a teaching position with the Royal Academy of Music and became Deputy Head of Composition in 1986.

Works

*''Eusebius'', opera *''Playboy of the Western World'', opera *''Mayakovsky and the Sun'', opera

References

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