Stanley (Joseph) Seeger jr. (28/05/1930 - 24/06/2011) an American/English composer, born in USA Wisconsin, Milwaukee - England, London
heir to a family fortune from lumber and oil, studied music at Princeton University and 1953 with Luigi Dallapiccola in Florence Italy, 1979 he bougth Sutton Place in Surrey England, 1993 he sold his Picasso collection for $32 million at Sotheby just to continue collecting other paintings.
The music of Joseph James is the fruit of a long-standing collaboration between the composers:
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Francis James Brown and
- Stanley Joseph Seeger.
Both are composers in their own right, having first met in Florence in the early 1950s while studying with Luigi Dallapiccola. Their recorded works include the film score for
Priest of Love, a film biography of D.H.Lawrence directed by Christopher Miles,
Sketches from The Scarlet Letter, an opera based on the novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne,
Concerto for 3 Bouzoukis and orchestra and
Requiem after J.S.Bach, a moving and imaginative interpretation of Bach's music used for a setting of the Latin requiem mass.