Edited sentence: An astonishingly gifted Australian composer, appointed Master of the Queen's Music in 1975.He wrote 10 operas, including the remarkably successful Our Man in Havana (1963), the witty English Eccentrics (after the book by Edith Sitwell) for Benjamin Britten and the 1964 Aldeburgh Festival, the chamber-scale The Growing Castle (1968), as well as many ingenious children's operas, including the brilliant Julius Caesar Jones of 1966 and Dunstan and the Devil of 1967.Malcolm Williamson (born 1931)