A Happy and Prosperous New Year 

to All Readers of 

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Composer Anniversaries for 2012:-

William Vincent Wallace 1812-1865 200th Anniversary of Birth

Frederic Delius 1862-1934  150th Anniversary of Birth

Edward German 1862-1936 150th Anniversary of Birth

Daniel Jones 1912-1993 Centenary of Birth

Samuel Coleridge Taylor 1875-1912 Centenary of Death

John Ireland 1879-1962 50th Anniversary of Death

Some important works that are celebrating significant anniversaries include:-

150 years ago:-

Sir Arthur Sullivan’s The Tempest – incidental music(completed 1861, but first performed at Crystal Palace in 1862)

100 years ago:-

Sir Edward Elgar: The Music Makers for contralto, chorus and orchestra- first performed at, the Birmingham Triennial Music Festival, 1912

Fred. Delius: On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring, for orchestra -composed 1912, f.p.1913

Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry: Symphonic Fantasia (Symphony No.5)

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Christmas Carols, Phantasy Quintet for Strings (f.p.1914)

Gustav Holst: Choral Hymns from the Rig-Veda, Group 4

Josef Holbrooke: The Children of Don, opera

Frank Bridge: String Sextet

John Ireland: Greater Love Hath No Man, motet

Arnold Bax: Christmas Eve on the Mountains, for orchestra (revised 1921) Nympholept, for orchestra (orchestrated 1915)

The 50th Anniversary Compositions will feature in a subsequent post.