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Jan 30, 2022 · Gerald Finzi: Eclogue Context. Although largely remembered now as a choral composer, Gerald Finzi also wrote some breathtaking orchestral music. Eclogue is composed for a solo piano and string orchestra and was originally intended to be part of a grand piano concerto that Finzi wanted to write in the late 1920s.
Gerald Finzi. Gerald Finzi was born in London on 14 July 1901 and spent his early childhood in London. When he was aged seven his father died and, following the outbreak of war, Finzi moved with his mother to Harrogate, in Yorkshire. There Finzi was able to study with the composer Ernest Farrar, until his departure for the war, and from 1917 ...
Jan 30, 2018 · While scholars have long recognized the importance of the so-called ‘English Musical Renaissance’ (c. 1840–1940) for the resurgence of cultural nationalism in England, the role of Gerald Finzi (1901–1956) in this movement has been largely neglected. With the help of a research grant from the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, I am ...
Gerald Finzi is one of the most admired British composers of the 20th Century. His music embraces a rich variety of moods, from elegiac lyricism, through spiritual reflection, to radiant joy. Finzi epitomised much that was characteristic of English Music, Literature and Landscape.
Intimations of Immortality. (Finzi) Intimations of Immortality, Op. 29, an ode for tenor, chorus, and orchestra, is one of the best-known works by English composer Gerald Finzi. It is a setting of nine of the eleven stanzas (all but the seventh and eighth) of William Wordsworth 's "Ode: Intimations of Immortality", cast as a single continuous ...
Gerald Finzi is one of the best-known modern English composers. While he is especially famous as a song-writer, for his sensitive settings of poets such as Hardy and Wordsworth, he also wrote in other genres; notable works includethe exquisite cantata Dies Natalis, and his cello concerto.
Nov 4, 2016 · Originally written as the slow movement of a violin concerto, Gerald Finzi's achingly beautiful "Introit in F Major for Solo Violin and Small Orchestra" is p...
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