DIED. ANTHONY BURGESS, 76, writer and composer; in London. Burgess was the author of more than 50 novels, radio and television scripts and innumerable articles and essays, and a composer of operas, symphonies and concertos, yet his famemuch to his chagrinrested largely on Stanley Kubricks violent 1971 film adaptation of A Clockwork Orange, the dystopian, futuristic novel Burgess published in 1962. Born in Manchester, England, Burgess served six years in the British Army during World War II and worked as a teacher until 1959, when he was told he had inoperable brain cancer and had a year to live. He turned to writing in hopes of generating income to leave his family, and when the diagnosis proved incorrect, he never stopped. Among his works are a series of comic novels following the exploits of F.X. Enderby, poet and permanent adolescent; a translation of Cyrano de Bergerac, the basis of Burgesss own Broadway musical version. Among Burgess's most recent writings was A Mouthful of Air, a collection of ruminations on language in general, English in particular. A lifelong linguist, he wrote A Clockwork Orange in an invented slang of English, Russian and even a dash of Gypsy.