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Sir Michael Tippett was born in London in 1905 and spent his childhood in Suffolk, making little contact with music until his teens. While at Stamford Grammar School, near Peterborough, he took piano lessons from a local teacher, Mrs Tinkler, sang in the local church choir and took part in amateur stage-productions. It was the experience of a hearing an orchestral concert in Leicester, conducted by Malcolm Sargent, that led him to decide to become a composer - even though he had little idea what it involved. His musical ambitions were not encouraged school, so he pressurised his parents into supporting him as a student at the Royal College of Music in London, where he enrolled in 1923. |
