UID:
almafu_9961412406502883
Format:
1 online resource (xxvi, 1052 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-80543-070-X
Content:
Gerald Finzi's (1901-1956) masterpiece is the radiant and touching cantata 'Dies Natalis'. He is also highly regarded for his Thomas Hardy song-settings, for his 'Intimations of Immortality', and for his fine cello and clarinet concertos. As a scholar, he championed the then neglected composers Hubert Parry and Ivor Gurney, and the eighteenth-century John Stanley, William Boyce and Richard Mudge, composers he revived with the amateur orchestra he founded.〈br〉〈br〉Diana McVeagh, Finzi's biographer, brings together more than 1600 letters from and to Gerald Finzi, spanning the composer's life from the early 1920s until his untimely death in 1956. His more than 160 correspondents include Ralph Vaughan Williams, Herbert Howells, Edmund Rubbra, Arthur Bliss and Howard Ferguson, Michael Tippett, Benjamin Britten and Sir John Barbirolli, the poet Edmund Blunden, and the artist John Aldridge, making this a portrait not only of Gerald Finzi but also of his group of composer, musician and artist friends in the first half of the twentieth century.〈br〉〈br〉In these mostly unpublished letters Finzi emerges as a multi-faceted and complex character, developing from a solitary, introverted youth into a man with strong views and wide interests: education, pacifism, vegetarianism, the Arts and Crafts movement and the English pastoral tradition, among others. From amusing trivia to the deeply serious ideas and principles Finzi set out at the onset of war and in the 1950s, these letters allow for first-hand insights into his personality and background.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Feb 2024).
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Front cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Correspondents -- Editorial Conventions -- Acknowledgements -- Chronology -- Abbreviations -- Prologue -- 1. A Young Man's Exhortation,1915-1933 -- Interlude 1, 1933-1939 -- 2. Haste on my Joys! 1933-1939 -- Interlude 2, 1939-1941 -- 3. Oh Fair to See, 1939-1941 -- Interlude 3, 1941-1945 -- 4. Channel Firing, 1941-1945 -- Interlude 4, 1945-1951 -- 5. Sing Out Cecilia's Name, 1945-1951 -- Interlude 5, 1951-1956 -- 6. The Too Short Time, 1951-1956 -- Epilogue -- Appendices -- Finzi's Circle -- Catalogue of Finzi's Works -- Finzi's Writings -- Select Bibliography -- Index of Finzi's Compositions -- Index of Names.
Additional Edition:
Print version: McVeagh, Diana Gerald Finzi's Letters, 1915-1956 Woodbridge : Boydell & Brewer, Incorporated,c2021
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781805430704
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