Progetto Martha Argerich

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Gerald Finzi

Budmouth Dears

 

Gerald Finzi was born in London in 1901 and died in Oxford in 1956. Originally self-taught in music, he later followed regular courses of study under the guidance of E. Bairstow and R. O. Morris. After having taught for awhile at the Royal Academy of Music, he concentrated mainly on conducting and composition, and he was active in the rediscovery of works by seventeenth-century English composers: he edited for publication William Boyce’s Eight Overtures (these works have since become classics of English music of the 1700s) and did the same for compositions by Stanley, Mudge and others. Gerald Finzi lived mainly in the country; for his vocal compositions he often drew inspiration from British folksongs, which, for the most part, are little known outside his native country but much admired by English audiences and musicians.

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