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Hacker was married three times. In 1959, he married Anna Maria Sroka, with whom he had two daughters, Katy and Sophie. His second marriage, to Karen Wynne Evans in 1976, produced a son, Alcuin. His third wife, Margaret Lee, survives him, as do his children and first two wives.
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was also a vehicle which promoted the performances of the classics on original instruments. Hacker also branched out into conducting opera, where he led performances of works from Monteverdi's
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in 1972, an organisation set up for the authentic performance of classical music. The later establishment of the
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where he won the Dove Prize and the Boise Travelling Scholarship which he used to study in
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and went on to hold a post of senior lecturer between 1984 and 1987.
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for his services to music in 1988. In 1994, he was a guest on
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in 1938, the son of Kenneth and Sybil Hacker. After attending
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cars. In 1972, the Pierrot Players renamed themselves the
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Index

Dorking
Surrey
Classical
OBE
FRAM
clarinettist
Dorking
Surrey
Dulwich College
Stanley Wilson
Royal Academy of Music
Paris
Bayreuth
Vienna
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Royal Academy of Music
Pierrot Players
Stephen Pruslin
Harrison Birtwistle
paraplegia
adapted
Fires of London
Institute of Contemporary Arts
International Society for Contemporary Music
basset clarinet
Mozart
basset clarinet
York
Robert Mayer
Leeds University

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