Gerald Finzi

A Bio-Bibliography

Gerald Finzi cover

Gerald Finzi

A Bio-Bibliography

Quantity
In stock
$86.40 RRP $96.00 Website price saving $9.60 (10%)

This product is usually dispatched within 2-4 weeks

Description

Gerald Finzi (1901-1956) was a British composer, editor, author, and outdoorsman/agrarian. Many of his works (a body of fewer than 50) are choral or solo vocal in nature. At the heart of his musical contributions is a unique blend of the metaphysical and mystical with a true love for everything English. Typical of many of the volumes in the Greenwood Press series, this work serves as an awareness tool, introducing an important 20th-century composer labeled variously as a miniaturist, a pastoral composer, and a minor Edwardian musician—but with a singular style that differed from his contemporaries' yet reflected in part the English tradition of Elgar, Parry, and Vaughan Williams in particular.

Growing up with the music of these composers as models, Finzi quickly succeeded in the art of writing songs. His work is just now beginning to receive wider publicity through recordings and public performance. A set of 15 anecdotes contributed by major artists is assembled in this work, containing the artists' reactions to Finzi and his compositions.

Table of Contents

Preface
Biography
Works and Performances
Discography
Bibliography
Appendix A: Song Cycle and Multi-Movement Works Components
Appendix B: Alphabetical Works List
Appendix C: Chronological Works List
Appendix D: Works List by Opus Number
Appendix E: Miscellaneous Song Sketches
Appendix F: Hardy Song Sketches
Appendix G: Oxford Manuscript Collection
Index

Product details

Published 21 Jan 1997
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 216
ISBN 9780313286933
Imprint Greenwood
Dimensions 235 x 156 mm
Series Bio-Bibliographies in Music
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

John C. Dressler

JOHN C. DRESSLER is Professor of Music at Murray S…

Related Titles

Get 30% off in the May sale - for one week only

Environment: Staging