The works of New Music Manchester Group in the context of British music in 1950-60’s
Composers Peter Maxwell Davies, Harrison Birtwistle and Alexander Goehr are the members of New Music Manchester Group that promoted the ideas of New Music and contributed to the success of its development in Britain. Activities of New Music Manchester Group (1953) are characterized by balancing between innovations and local tradition: they’ve been focusing on the expression of national identity and uniqueness that turned to be unusual enough for that period of time in Europe. The first point of the Group’s interest to advanced techniques was Webern’s and Schönberg’s works. The most important contribution to the development of New British music Davies and Birtwistle have made into music for theatre.