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H. Balfour Gardiner

Autor Stephen Lloyd
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 feb 2005
This is the first study of the life and music of Balfour Gardiner (1877–1950), a composer of some distinction and a generous patron of British music. But it is necessarily more than the story of just one man: it is an account of many friendships (chiefly musical) during that exciting period of British music's struggle out of mediocrity to prominence. It was Balfour Gardiner who, before the First World War, launched in Queen's Hall a remarkable series of concerts that did much to establish the reputations of several young composers. It was he, too, who made possible in a war-torn England the first performance of Holst's The Planets, and who gave considerable assistance to his close friend Delius, the plight of whose last years forms a tragic undercurrent to this book. Stephen Lloyd brings to light for the first time the full story of this once greatly respected musician and benefactor. He has traced Gardiner's student days in Germany, his early struggles as a composer, his involvement first in the folk-song movement and later with the ill-fated Musical League, his extensive patronage of music, his dabbling in architecture, and his eventual forsaking of composition for afforestation, which proved an equally remarkable undertaking.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780521619226
ISBN-10: 052161922X
Pagini: 292
Ilustrații: black & white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 155 x 236 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Ediția:Paperback.
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cuprins

List of illustrations; Foreword Eric Fenby; Preface; 1. One of the 'Frankfurt Group' 1877–1901; 2. 'A civilised being …' 1902–1903; 3. Hampshire folk-song collecting 1903–1906; 4. Delius, Beecham and Hardy 1907–1911; 5. ' … a place of enchantment' 1909–1911; 6. 'Oriana will sing for me …' 1912–1913; 7. 'Full of unexpected harmonies …' 1912–1914; 8. 'The wasted years …' 1914–1919; 9. Philharmonic patronage 1919–1922; 10. 'None shall revive the flame that perisheth …' 1922–1924; 11. 'My substituted occupation …' 1919–1927; 12. 'If I might have two rows of trees …' 1927–1933; 13. 'This is a terrible time …' 1934–1936; 14. 'We are growing old …' 1937–1950; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Discography; Index.

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The first study of the life and music of Balfour Gardiner (1877–1950), a generous patron of British music.