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Anthony Burgess: 鈥淢y great ambition was to be a composer鈥

A celebrated writer with over 50 published books to his name, A Clockwork Orange author Anthony Burgess explains to legendary jazz pianist Oscar Peterson how music was his early passion.

Wanting to be a composer, Burgess humorously recalls how he settled for the "easier" career of becoming a novelist since it seemed to involve less work.

Extract from Oscar Peterson Invites.... from 8 March 1977.

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