John Tavener was a British composer born on January 28, 1944. He is best known for his works in classical music, which often incorporate religious themes. His net worth, biography, age, height, family, and career updates are widely available online. He was awarded a CBE in 1988 and was knighted in 2000 for his services to music. He passed away in 2013, leaving behind a legacy of beautiful and inspiring music.
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Famous for such religious instrumental and vocal works as, respectively, The Protecting Veil (for strings and cello) and The Lamb (for choir), this important 20th-century composer first rose to fame in the late 1960s after writing a much lauded cantata titled The Whale.
During his teenage years, he was a pianist with the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and a choir director at a Presbyterian church in Kensington. He later trained at the Royal Academy of Music.
In the late 1970s, he became a member of the Russian Orthodox Church. His religious conversion greatly influenced his music.
His first marriage, to a Greek dancer named Victoria Maragopoulou, ended after less than a year. His second marriage, to Maryanna Schaefer, resulted in children named Sofia, Theodora, and Orlando.
His 1977 chamber opera, A Gentle Spirit, was based on a work by the Russian fiction writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
