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Gerald Finzi: His Life and Music (Paperback)
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Gerald Finzi: His Life and Music (Paperback)
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Critically acclaimed biography of one of England's best loved
composers, with a full discussion and evaluation of his works.
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. He also exerted a major influence
in the musical world as a whole, championing the neglected Ivor
Gurney and reviving eighteenth-century composers with the amateur
orchestra he founded. In this lively and sensitive study of his
life and works, Diana McVeagh, the renowned Elgar and Finzi
scholar, has made use of interviews with the main figures in his
life, correspondence with contemporaries such as Vaughan Williams,
Edmund Blunden, Arthur Bliss, Edmund Rubbra, Howard Ferguson and
Herbert Howells, and her access to previously unpublished material
in the form of his widow, Joy's, unpublished journal. The Finzithat
emerges is a multi-faceted and complex character. The author shows
how he developed from a solitary, introverted youth into a man with
strong views and a myriad of interests: everything from education,
pacifism, vegetarianism, to the Arts and Crafts movement, the
English pastoral tradition, English apple varieties, and the
significance of ancestry, friendship and marriage in an artist's
life. She also discusses every work within the narrative of Finzi's
life, and shows what makes his output so outstanding. Diana McVeagh
is the author of the highly acclaimed Elgar the Music Maker [2007];
of the entries on Elgar and Finzi for The New Grove Dictionary of
Music and Musicians [1980, 2001]; and of the Finzi entry in The
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography [2004].
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