Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir Harrison Birtwistle NPG x31690

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Anne-Katrin Purkiss

Birtwistle studied at the Royal Manchester College of Music (1952-55) where he met Peter Maxwell Davies and Alexander Goehr. Attracted to the avant-garde, the group were known for a time as the 'Manchester School'. Birtwistle's opera Punch and Judy caused controversy when it was premiered in 1968 due to the style of the music and violence of the plot. His works include Gawain (1991), hailed as his masterpiece, and the opera The Minotaur(2008). He was knighted in 1988.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.