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Significant Composer Anniversaries for 2014
Thomas Attwood Walmisley (1814-1856) Bi-Centenary of Birth
Eugene d’Albert (1864-1932) 150 year Anniversary of Birth
Wilfred Mellors (1914-2008) Centenary of Birth
Frank Chacksfield (1914-1995) Centenary of Birth
William Lloyd Webber (1914-1982) Centenary of Birth
Andrej Panufnik (1914-1991) Centenary of Birth
Arnold Richardson (1914-1973) Centenary of Birth
Some Important British Works that are Celebrating Significant Anniversaries (Composed, First Performed or Published) include:-
100 years ago:-
Charles Villiers Stanford: Irish Rhapsody No 4
Edward Elgar: Sospiri; Carillon: Recitation with orchestra
Fred. Delius: North Country Sketches, for orchestra
Gustav Holst: The Planets, Suite for orchestra (1914-16)
Roger Quilter: A Children's Overture
Frank Bridge: Summer, Tone Poem
Arnold Bax: Piano Quintet in G Minor (1914-15)
Egon Wellesz: Suite for Orchestra
Edward Elgar: Sospiri; Carillon: Recitation with orchestra
Fred. Delius: North Country Sketches, for orchestra
Gustav Holst: The Planets, Suite for orchestra (1914-16)
Roger Quilter: A Children's Overture
Frank Bridge: Summer, Tone Poem
Arnold Bax: Piano Quintet in G Minor (1914-15)
Egon Wellesz: Suite for Orchestra
75 years ago
William Alwyn: Violin Concerto, Rhapsody; for piano quartet; Sonata-Impromptu, for violin and viola
Richard Arnell: String Quartet No 1
Arnold Bax: Symphony No 7 in Ab
Lennox Berkeley: Serenade for string orchestra Five Songs (1939-40)
Lord Berners: Cupid and Psyche, ballet
Benjamin Britten: Violin Concerto in D minor (revised 1958); Canadian Carnival, for orchestra (1939-40); Ballad of Heroes, for voices and orchestra; Les Illuminations, song cycle
Geoffrey Bush: Sonata for two pianos
Benjamin Frankel: Elegie Juive, for cello and piano
harp
Josef Holbrooke: Tamerlaine, concerto for clarinet/saxophone, bassoon and orchestra
Herbert Howells: Concerto for strings
John Ireland: Concertino Pastorale, for strings
Elisabeth Lutyens: Three Pieces for orchestra; String Trio
Alan Rawsthorne: String Quartet No 1; Theme and Variations
Edmund Rubbra: Symphony No 3
Cyril Scott: Symphony No 3, The Muses
Michael Tippett: Fantasia on a Theme by Handel, for piano and orchestra (1939- 41); A Child of Our Time, oratorio (1939-41)
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus
Richard Arnell: String Quartet No 1
Arnold Bax: Symphony No 7 in Ab
Lennox Berkeley: Serenade for string orchestra Five Songs (1939-40)
Lord Berners: Cupid and Psyche, ballet
Benjamin Britten: Violin Concerto in D minor (revised 1958); Canadian Carnival, for orchestra (1939-40); Ballad of Heroes, for voices and orchestra; Les Illuminations, song cycle
Geoffrey Bush: Sonata for two pianos
Benjamin Frankel: Elegie Juive, for cello and piano
harp
Josef Holbrooke: Tamerlaine, concerto for clarinet/saxophone, bassoon and orchestra
Herbert Howells: Concerto for strings
John Ireland: Concertino Pastorale, for strings
Elisabeth Lutyens: Three Pieces for orchestra; String Trio
Alan Rawsthorne: String Quartet No 1; Theme and Variations
Edmund Rubbra: Symphony No 3
Cyril Scott: Symphony No 3, The Muses
Michael Tippett: Fantasia on a Theme by Handel, for piano and orchestra (1939- 41); A Child of Our Time, oratorio (1939-41)
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus
William Walton: Violin Concerto
Information from Eric Gilder’s The Dictionary of Composers and their Music, with thanks.
Information from Eric Gilder’s The Dictionary of Composers and their Music, with thanks.
2014 also features the following significant birthdays:-
Judith Weir 60
John Casken 65
John McCabe 75
Peter Maxwell Davies 80
Andre Previn 85The 50th Anniversary Compositions will feature in a subsequent post.
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