Douglas Gordon Lilburn, composer: born Wanganui, New Zealand 2 November 1915; died Wellington 6 June 2001. Douglas Lilburn represented serious music in New Zealand culture to an extent not generally ...

One of the country's most acclaimed composers is to be inducted into the New Zealand Music Hall of Fame. Douglas Lilburn, who penned such tunes as 'Aotearoa Overture' and the Piano Sonatas, has been ...

"To the Piano Player, I do not know who you are, but I wish to tell you that your incessant practising of exercises on the piano is torture to all in this house. If these long hours of torture go on I ...

In the middle of last century two of our major artists, painter Rita Angus and composer Douglas Lilburn had a relationship, the full extent of which has only become public in the last few years with ...