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Finzi, Gerald --- Groot-Brittannië --- 20e eeuw --- Zangkunst

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Biographical insights into two outstanding musical personalities and commentary on the vitality of the British musical scene of the period. The letters that passed, on an almost daily basis, between the composers Howard Ferguson and Gerald Finzi provide not only a fascinating commentary on the British musical scene of the period 1926-1956, but also what amounts to a unique dual-biography of two remarkable, though very different, personalities. Their lives, their loves, their enthusiasms and their prejudices are laid bare with a rare degree of candour, so that we learn not only what it was liketo be witness to an art that was enjoying an unprecedented explosion of creative vitality, but also how they came to explore and consolidate their own exceptional talents. Biographical background narratives provide links that make clear what intimate correspondents inevitably take for granted, and explanations are given for references that the passage of time has made obscure. Their lives are thus revealed in all their diversity - tragedy and comedy, achievement and frustration, justifiable pride and unreasoning prejudice playing equal parts in this absorbing tale of two outstanding musical personalities of the twentieth century.

Composers --- England --- Correspondence --- Finzi, Gerald --- Ferguson, Howard --- Finzi, Gerald, --- Ferguson, Howard, --- British music. --- British musical scene. --- Composers. --- Correspondence. --- Gerald Finzi. --- Howard Ferguson. --- Musical personalities. --- Personalities. --- Spiritual authority. --- Supernatural power. --- Transgressor. --- Twentieth century.

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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.

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.

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.

Music --- History and criticism. --- Ashmansworth. --- Blunden. --- Boyce. --- Chosen Hill. --- Dies Natalis. --- Edmund Rubbra. --- Garth. --- Gurney. --- Handel. --- Hardy. --- Herbert Howells. --- Howard Ferguson. --- John Stanley. --- Mudge. --- Newbury. --- Parry. --- Three Choirs Festivals. --- Traherne. --- Vaughan Williams. --- Wordsworth. --- apples. --- Composers --- Finzi, Gerald, --- Friends and associates.