Career
Peter Searson Pope (25 March 25, 1917 – 29 November 1991) was a British composer. His studies were, however, cut short by the German invasion of Paris in 1940 and, when Nadia Boulanger emigrated to the United States, he had to flee across France, returning to England on a Spanish trawler. He later saw service in the Royal Army Medical Corps and was attached to the 8th Army as it advanced from North Africa through Sicily and Italy.
After the war he composed several chamber works and his major break came in April 1948 when a piano quartet of his was performed at Wigmore Hall.
Pope left the sect in 1971 but was never in a position to re-launch his nascent career. He did however continue to compose prolifically and to this period belong several exquisite song cycles, a Communion Service dedicated to the choir of Liverpool Cathedral, several piano sonatas and works for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and saxophone.
He died in 1991 leaving a large corpus of unpublished and relatively unknown music