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===Classical music=== Many notable musicians have been associated with Kent.<ref>Gerald Norris, A Musical Gazetteer of Great Britain & Ireland (David & Charles, 1981).</ref> [[Walter Galpin Alcock]], composer and organist, who played the organ at the coronations of Edward VII, George V and George VI, was born at [[Edenbridge, Kent|Edenbridge]] in 1861. [[Richard Rodney Bennett]], composer and pianist, was born at [[Broadstairs]] in 1936. [[Alfred Deller]], counter-tenor singer, was born at Margate in 1912. [[Orlando Gibbons]], composer and organist, died in Canterbury on 5 June 1625 and is buried in the cathedral. [[George Frideric Handel]] took the waters at Royal Tunbridge Wells in 1734 and 1735. [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]], together with his father, mother and sister, stayed at [[Bourne Park House]] near Canterbury, 25β30 July 1765. The nights of 24 and 30 July were spent in Canterbury, where they also went to the horse races. [[Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov]], then an 18-year-old sea cadet, was anchored at Gravesend from November 1862 to February 1863; while there, he completed the slow movement of his First Symphony. [[Malcolm Sargent]], conductor, was born at Ashford in 1895. [[Thomas Tallis]], composer and organist, was a [[lay clerk]] of [[Canterbury Cathedral]] around 1541β2. [[Peter Warlock]], composer and writer on music, and [[Ernest John Moeran]], composer, resided at [[Eynsford]] from 1925 to 1928; [[Arnold Bax]], [[William Walton]] and [[Constant Lambert]] visited them here. [[Percy Whitlock]], organist and composer, was born at Chatham in 1903.
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