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Myfanwy Piper

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Mary Myfanwy Evans was born on 28 March 1911 into a Welsh family in London. Her father was a chemist in
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She and John Piper had two sons and two daughters. Her elder son, painter
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on several of his operas, and between 1977 and 1981 with composer
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on most of his operatic works. She was a friend of the poet
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which was devoted to abstract art. She married the artist
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Between 1954 and 1973 she collaborated with the composer
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in 1937, and lived with him in rural surroundings at
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art critic
librettist
Hampstead
North London Collegiate School
St Hugh's College, Oxford
John Piper
Fawley Bottom
Henley-on-Thames
Benjamin Britten
Alun Hoddinott
John Betjeman
Edward Piper
Fawley Bottom
The Turn of the Screw
Benjamin Britten
Teatro La Fenice
The Turn of the Screw
Henry James
Owen Wingrave
BBC Television
Death in Venice
Aldeburgh Festival
Snape, Suffolk
Der Tod in Venedig
Thomas Mann
Malcolm Williamson
What the Old Man Does is Always Right
Alun Hoddinott

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