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Roger Quilter - His Life and Music (Hardcover)
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Roger Quilter - His Life and Music (Hardcover)
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Draws upon unpublished sources and interviews with those who knew
him to give a full picture of Roger Quilter's artistic world and
musical output. The songs of Roger Quilter are a staple of the
English art song repertoire, yet little is known of his life, and
his popularity suffered an eclipse in postwar years largely through
changing musical fashions. Championed by the great English tenor
Gervase Elwes, Quilter became famous for songs such as 'Now Sleeps
the Crimson Petal', 'Love's Philosophy' and 'Go, Lovely Rose'. The
BBC included A Children's Overture in their first broadcast
concert, andthe success of his atmospheric music for the children's
fairy play Where the Rainbow Ends ensured his immense popularity.
Access to numerous sources worldwide, many of them unpublished, and
extensive interviews with friends and family, have enabled Valerie
Langfield to write a sympathetic and authoritative account of
Quilter, the first full-length study. The first part focuses on
Quilter's life: she examines his relationships with his friends,
particularly Grainger and the de Glehn family, and how his wealth,
ill-health, family and homosexuality affected him. Her researches
testify to Quilter's quiet philanthropy: his many practical actions
included his founder-membershipof the Musicians Benevolent Fund,
generous and discreet assistance to young musicians, and help to
Jewish friends fleeing Germany and Austria before the second world
war. The second part of the book discusses and contextualises all
his music: songs, chamber, orchestral and theatre music, and his
light opera, Julia, performed at Covent Garden in 1936. The CD -
which can be ordered separately bypurchasers of the book - contains
recordings of Quilter himself, either playing or conducting. The 17
songs that Quilter recorded in 1934 with the baritone Mark Raphael
are included, together with his own arrangement for piano quintet
of the song cycle To Julia with Hubert Eisdell as the tenor
soloist. Quilter also conducts a short selection of items of music
from Where the Rainbow Ends. Also: Schedule of performances;
Catalogue of works; Discography; Bibli
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