Patrick Gowers

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William Patrick Gowers (born May 5, 1936 in London) is an English composer known for his film scores.

Gowers' works include the following music scores: Comic Act (1998), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1988), The Sign of Four (1987), Whoops Apocalypse (1986), Anna Karenina (1985), Smiley's People (1982), Stevie (1978), Children of Rage (1975), A Bigger Splash (1974), Farlige kys (1972), Giv Gud en Chance Om Soendagen (1970), The Virgin and the Gypsy (1970), Balladen Om Carl-Henning (1969), Hamlet (1969), Thomas er Fredloes (1968), Marat / Sade (1966).

His concert music includes works written for the guitarist John Williams: Chamber Concerto for Guitar and Rhapsody for Guitar, Electric Guitars and Electric Organ. He has also composed some choral music, including a setting of the text Veni Creator Spiritus and the much-performed Viri Galilaei.

He has done research work on Erik Satie (Eric Satie: his studies, notebooks and critics, Ph. D., Cambridge Univ., 1965).

He is the grandson of British civil servant Sir Ernest Gowers and the father of the mathematician Timothy Gowers, the writer Rebecca Gowers and the violinist Katharine Gowers.