"study of Johann Sebastian Bach. Both in his lifetime and afterwards, Parry's reputation and critical standing have varied. His academic duties were considerable and prevented him from devoting all his energies to composition, but some contemporaries such as Charles Villiers Stanford rated him as the finest English composer since Henry Purcell; others, such as Frederick Delius, did not. Parry's influence on later composers, by contrast, is widely recognised. Edward Elgar learned much of his craft from Parry's articles in Grove's Dictionary, and among those who studied under Parry at the Royal College were Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst, Frank Bridge"
"""Song of Farewell"". Always a severe self-critic, he destroyed several substantial early works but the following smaller pieces by Eric Fenby survive. Orchestral works Choral works Eric Fenby Eric William Fenby OBE (22 April 190618 February 1997) was an English composer, conductor, pianist, organist and teacher who is best known for being Frederick Delius's amanuensis from 1928 to 1934. He helped Delius realise a number of works that would not otherwise have been forthcoming. Fenby was born in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, and as a youth took lessons in the piano, organ and cello. At the age of 12 he was"
"Edward Elgar Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet (; 2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestral works including the ""Enigma Variations"", the ""Pomp and Circumstance Marches"", concertos for violin and cello, and two symphonies. He also composed choral works, including ""The Dream of Gerontius"", chamber music and songs. He was appointed Master of the King's Musick in 1924. Although Elgar is often regarded as a typically English composer, most of his musical influences were not from England"
"the original instruments of Edward VII's band, to ensure the royal music library was well ordered, and to secure recognition for other musicians, including a knighthood for Granville Bantock and the Companion of Honour for Delius. As musical aide to the king he gave advice about such topics as the foundation of a national opera company, the correct version of the national anthem to be broadcast by the BBC, and the musical events at which members of the royal family should be present. Elgar died in 1934. He was succeeded by Sir Walford Davies, organist of St George's Chapel, Windsor,"
"is held by the University of Southampton. He died in 1994, aged 74. He has two sons. The elder is the Beethoven editor Jonathan Del Mar, and the younger is Robin Del Mar who is a viola player. Norman Del Mar Norman René Del Mar CBE (31 July 19196 February 1994) was a British conductor, horn player, and biographer. As a conductor, he specialized in the music of late romantic composers; including Edward Elgar, Gustav Mahler, and Richard Strauss. He left a great legacy of recordings of British music, in particular Elgar, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Frederick Delius, and Benjamin Britten."
"Eric Fenby Eric William Fenby OBE (22 April 190618 February 1997) was an English composer, conductor, pianist, organist and teacher who is best known for being Frederick Delius's amanuensis from 1928 to 1934. He helped Delius realise a number of works that would not otherwise have been forthcoming. Fenby was born in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, and as a youth took lessons in the piano, organ and cello. At the age of 12 he was appointed organist at Holy Trinity Church. As a composer he was largely self-taught. By 1925 he had conducted a work for string orchestra at the Spa"
"been supplanted in Elgar's affections by Alice Stuart-Wortley. Perhaps the best-known work depicting Elgar is Ken Russell's 1962 BBC television film ""Elgar"", made when the composer was still largely out of fashion. This hour-long film contradicted the view of Elgar as a jingoistic and bombastic composer, and evoked the more pastoral and melancholy side of his character and music. The following have been selected as representative of Elgar's works, based on quality, significance and popularity. Notes References Edward Elgar Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet (; 2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English composer, many of whose"
"boyhood exploits in the game. In 1933, the year before both composers died, Elgar, who had flown to Paris to conduct a performance of his Violin Concerto, visited Delius at Grez. Delius was not on the whole an admirer of Elgar's music, but the two men took to each other, and there followed a warm correspondence until Elgar's death in February 1934. Elgar described Delius as ""a poet and a visionary"". Delius died at Grez on 10 June 1934, aged 72. He had wished to be buried in his own garden, but the French authorities forbade it. His alternative wish,"
"only after constant requests from her for a new piece, and was dedicated to her. Her performance, however, attracted rather negative reviews, and it may have even been what caused Elgar to revise the work, a revision he never finished (the score was lost from around 1906 until 1968). She died, aged 73, in London. Fanny Davies Fanny Davies (27 June 1861 1 September 1934) was a British pianist who was particularly admired in Beethoven, Schumann, Brahms, and the early schools, but was also a very early London performer of the works of Debussy and Scriabin. In England, she was"
"Lady"", which was issued on CD. The Third Symphony sketches were elaborated by the composer Anthony Payne into a complete score in 1998. Inoperable colorectal cancer was discovered during an operation on 8 October 1933. He told his consulting doctor, Arthur Thomson, that he had no faith in an afterlife: ""I believe there is nothing but complete oblivion."" Elgar died on 23 February 1934 at the age of seventy-six and was buried next to his wife at St. Wulstan's Roman Catholic Church in Little Malvern. Elgar was contemptuous of folk music and had little interest in or respect for the"
"performances as a conductor included the Düsseldorf premieres of and the German premiere of Charles Villiers Stanford's ""Requiem"", Op. 63. He composed a Piano Concerto in D minor, a cantata ""Rinaldo"", a string quartet, a piano quintet, some songs and instrumental pieces. In 1902 he became Director of the Düsseldorf Conservatory, in which post he remained until 1908. He died there in 1920, aged 68. Julius Buths Julius Buths (7 May 185112 March 1920) was a German pianist, conductor and minor composer. He was particularly notable in his early championing of the works of Edward Elgar in Germany. He conducted"
"Symphony No. 3 (Elgar/Payne) Edward Elgar's Third Symphony Op. 88 (posth.) was incomplete at the time of his death in 1934. Elgar left 130 pages of sketches which the British composer Anthony Payne worked on for many years, producing a complete symphony in 1997, officially known as ""Edward Elgar: the sketches for Symphony No 3 elaborated by Anthony Payne"" or in brief ""Elgar/Payne Symphony No 3"". The first public performance was at the Royal Festival Hall on 15 February 1998, by the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andrew Davis. After the death of his wife in 1920, Elgar retreated into"
"living at Brinkwells, near Fittleworth in Sussex, and Reed often stayed at his house and went walking with him during this time. Elgar's wife died in 1920, and at her funeral at St Wulstan's Church, Little Malvern, Billy Reed was part of the quartet that played a movement from Elgar's String Quartet. In 1932 Elgar started writing his Third Symphony in earnest, after a BBC commission in which Reed and George Bernard Shaw played a part. He had been musing over such a work for some years, and had jotted down various themes and ideas on different pieces of manuscript"
"that Davies's regular listeners felt a proprietorial interest in him, recording one of them as remarking, ""He always seemed to come right into the room with us."" On the death of Sir Edward Elgar in 1934, Davies was appointed to succeed him as Master of the King's Music. As musical adviser to the BBC Davies moved from London to Bristol when the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the corporation's music administration moved there on the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939. Davies died at Wrington, near Bristol, on 11 March 1941, and was buried in the graveyard of Bristol"
"brilliantly able to condense a familiar image, such as the reel or the fugue, and accumulate into a substantial, 54-minute statement."" Publisher: University of York Music Press Jeremy Dale Roberts Jeremy Dale Roberts (16 May 1934 – 11 July 2017) was an English composer. His compositions have been performed worldwide at the Edinburgh and Aldeburgh Festivals, the Venice Biennale, the Diorama de Geneve, and the festivals of Avignon and Paris. They include After early contact with Ralph Vaughan Williams and Gerald Finzi, Dale Roberts studied with William Alwyn and Priaulx Rainier at the Royal Academy of Music, London. He retired"
"a complete ""Irmelin"" for BBC Digital in 1985. In 1997 EMI reissued Meredith Davies's 1976 recording of ""Fennimore and Gerda"", which Richard Hickox conducted in German the same year for Chandos. Recordings of all the major works, and of many of the individual songs, have been issued at regular intervals since the Second World War. Many of these recordings have been issued in conjunction with the Delius Society, which has prepared various discographies of Delius's recorded music. Frederick Delius Frederick Theodore Albert Delius, CH ( 29 January 1862 – 10 June 1934), originally Fritz Delius, was an English composer. Born"
"(like dance suites) with typical late-19th-century romantic harmonies and textures. He continued to compose and tour until January 1936, when his health deteriorated. He died of endocarditis on 18 April that year, at the age of 56. A year after his burial, his remains were moved to his birthplace, Bologna, and reinterred at the city's expense at the Certosa di Bologna. Inscribed on his tomb are his name and crosses; dates of birth and death are missing. Ottorino Respighi Ottorino Respighi (; 9 July 187918 April 1936) was an Italian violinist, composer and musicologist, best known for his trilogy of"
"a nineteen-minute all-African-American RKO short in which he played the hero ""Duke"". He also appeared in the Amos 'n' Andy film ""Check and Double Check"", released in 1930. That year, Ellington and his Orchestra connected with a whole different audience in a concert with Maurice Chevalier and they also performed at the Roseland Ballroom, ""America's foremost ballroom"". Australian-born composer Percy Grainger was an early admirer and supporter. He wrote ""The three greatest composers who ever lived are Bach, Delius and Duke Ellington. Unfortunately Bach is dead, Delius is very ill but we are happy to have with us today The"
"the Central European tradition typified at the time by the work of Richard Strauss. The ""Enigma Variations"" were well received in Germany and Italy, and remain to the present day a worldwide concert staple. Elgar's biographer Basil Maine commented, ""When Sir Arthur Sullivan died in 1900 it became apparent to many that Elgar, although a composer of another build, was his true successor as first musician of the land."" Elgar's next major work was eagerly awaited. For the Birmingham Triennial Music Festival of 1900, he set Cardinal John Henry Newman's poem ""The Dream of Gerontius"" for soloists, chorus and orchestra."
"corrected the proofs of Dowland´s ""Second Book of Songs"", which was published in London in 1600. He was also mentioned in connection with arrangements for the funeral of his patron Sir Thomas Kitson, an event which took place in Hengrave in 1603. It is not known what happened to him subsequently. Perhaps his best-known work is ""Eliza Is the Fairest Queen"" (a tribute to Elizabeth I). Other works include: Edward Johnson (composer) Edward Johnson (fl. 1572–1601) was an English composer. Johnson's compositions were highly regarded in his time, but few of them survive. Johnson was born about 1549. He composed"
"the Three Choirs Festival's history. From 1928 until his retirement in 1967, Sumsion was responsible for planning and serving as the principal conductor for eleven festivals held at Gloucester. Although Sumsion personally acknowledged the challenge that cathedral organists—who were primarily choral conductors—faced in conducting major orchestral works, his own conducting was greatly respected, and his interpretations of Elgar's works were viewed as being representative of the composer's own readings. At the first festival following Elgar's death (1934), Sumsion proposed that the three cathedral organists each conduct one of the Elgar works on the program, a welcome division of labour for"
"only member common to both groups.) String Quartet (Elgar) The String Quartet in E minor, Op. 83, was one of three major chamber music works composed by Sir Edward Elgar in 1918. The others were the Violin Sonata in E minor, Op. 82, and the Piano Quintet in A minor, Op. 84. Along with the Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85 of 1919, these were to be his last major works prior to his death in 1934. The String Quartet lasts for around 25 minutes and is in three movements: The slow middle movement was a favourite of Elgar's"
"Abbey Road studios. For this work, dedicated to the wife and daughters of the Duke of York, Elgar once again drew on his youthful sketch-books. In his final years, Elgar experienced a musical revival. The BBC organised a festival of his works to celebrate his seventy-fifth birthday, in 1932. He flew to Paris in 1933 to conduct the Violin Concerto for Menuhin. While in France, he visited his fellow composer Frederick Delius at his house at Grez-sur-Loing. He was sought out by younger musicians such as Adrian Boult, Malcolm Sargent and John Barbirolli, who championed his music when it was"
"William Henry Reed William Henry ""Billy"" Reed (29 July 18752 July 1942) was an English violinist, teacher, minor composer, conductor and biographer of Sir Edward Elgar. He was leader of the London Symphony Orchestra for 23 years (1912–1935), but is best known for his long personal friendship with Elgar (1910–1934) and his book ""Elgar As I Knew Him"" (1936), in which he goes into great detail about the genesis of the Violin Concerto in B minor. The book also provides a large number of Elgar's sketches for his unfinished Third Symphony, which proved invaluable sixty years later when Anthony Payne"
"and the Ravel in F major (in 1929). He died in Steyning, Sussex, England, UK in 1978 aged 87. Cedric Sharpe Cedric Sharpe, ARCM, Hon RAM (13 April 1891 – 1978) was a British cellist, composer and music professor of the early to mid-20th century. He studied cello at the Royal College of Music later becoming professor of cello at the Royal Academy of Music – the start of a teaching career that was to span almost four decades before he retired in 1966 at the age of 75. During the inter-War years he became a prominent player of both"
"the Elgar on his 60th birthday in 1946, with George Weldon conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra. He also made the first recording of Elgar's Violin Sonata in E minor in 1935. Among other concertos in his repertoire were those by Beethoven, Brahms, Bruch, and the Mozart G major. In May 1915 a chance encounter in London with Frederick Delius led directly to the composition of a violin concerto in which Sammons probably assisted considerably even to the point of writing some link passages. On 13 July 1916 Sammons gave the first UK performance of the Violin Sonata of Claude Debussy,"
"In addition to the above-cited Hugo Wolf lieder album, he did two others for Oiseau-Lyre, one of Schubert and one of Brahms. His a strong affection for British composers included not only Delius and Vaughan Williams but lesser lights such as Herbert Howells, John Ireland and Ivor Gurney. He became a professor at the Royal Academy of Music in 1956. He died on 11 May 1996 at Bishop Auckland, County Durham, England. Bruce Boyce Bruce Boyce (1910 – 11 May 1996) was a prominent Canadian-born American baritone singer of opera, oratorio and lieder, who made his postwar career in Britain"
"works and composers can be introduced. TIMF has set up its own programming policy to honor contemporary era by finding the beauty of the works and introducing it to new and young audiences. The following is the result of the efforts made to do the finding. Leoš Janáček (Czech; 1854~1928) Edward Elgar (England; 1857~1934) Isaac Albéniz (Spain; 1860~1909) Gustav Mahler (Austria; 1860~1911) Claude Debussy (France; 1862~1918) Richard Strauss (Germany; 1864~1949) Alexander Scriabin (Russia; 1872~1915) Ralph Vaughan Williams (England; 1872~1958) Sergei Rachmaninoff (Russia; 1873~1943) Arnold Schoenberg (Austria; 1874~1951) Charles Ives (America; 1874~1954) Maurice Ravel (France; 1875~1937) Manuel de Falla (Spain; 1876~1946)"
"Suddaby) at Westminster with the Bach Cantata Club under Charles Kennedy Scott. She sang Beethoven's ""Symphony No. 9"" with the BBC Chorus and the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Arturo Toscanini at the Queen's Hall, London, on 3 November 1937. She was a soloist at the Handel Festival conducted by Henry Wood at Alexandra Palace in 1939. Margaret Balfour Margaret Balfour (c.1892 – January 1961) was an English classical Contralto of the 1920s and 1930s. She is best remembered as the angel in Elgar's own recorded excerpts of ""The Dream of Gerontius"" (1927) and one of the 16 soloists in"
"During the Second World War, Sargent and the Liverpool Philharmonic accompanied Albert Sammons, the dedicatee, in his 1944 recording of the Delius Violin Concerto. Later, in 1965, with Jacqueline du Pré, in her début recording, Sargent recorded Delius's Cello Concerto, coupled with the ""Songs of Farewell"" (1965). At the end of the war, Sargent turned to recording Elgar. A recording regularly chosen over all others in comparative surveys is the first of Sargent's two versions of Elgar's ""The Dream of Gerontius"" with Heddle Nash as tenor and the familiar Sargent pairing of the Huddersfield Choral Society and the Liverpool Philharmonic"
"to revitalise our musical culture"". The Symphony, in four movements, takes about 55 minutes in performance. The first recording was made for the NMC label by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Andrew Davis, in October 1997, four months before the first public performance. Subsequent recordings have been made by: Symphony No. 3 (Elgar/Payne) Edward Elgar's Third Symphony Op. 88 (posth.) was incomplete at the time of his death in 1934. Elgar left 130 pages of sketches which the British composer Anthony Payne worked on for many years, producing a complete symphony in 1997, officially known as ""Edward Elgar: the"
"from the composer's dictation. The 66-year-old Delius, who lived with his wife Jelka and their servants at Grez-sur-Loing, 70 kilometres south of Paris, had never even heard of Fenby, a struggling 22-year-old composer and theatre organist living with his parents in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, but he accepted Fenby's unsolicited offer. Fenby stayed with the Deliuses at Grez, on and off for six years, until Delius's death in 1934. He had immense difficulties in dealing with the cantankerous, irascible and impatient composer (perhaps partly excused by his constant pain). Neither party had ever worked this way before, but Fenby was immediately"
"included Bach (singing the voice of Jesus in the Passions), Handel, Elgar, Britten, Delius, Tippett and Vaughan Williams. His operatic work included the vicar in Britten's ""Albert Herring"" for the English Opera Group, conducted by the composer and subsequently recorded by Decca (1964). The conductor Meredith Davies invited him to join the staff of Trinity College of Music, London. He later taught at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, and had a thriving teaching practice for the rest of his life. He died aged 77 of pancreatic cancer. John Noble (baritone) John Noble (2 January 193121 March 2008) was"