H. Balfour Gardiner / Stephen Lloyd.
| Author/creator | Lloyd, Stephen, 1944- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©1984. |
| Description | xvi, 272 pages : illustrations, portraits, music ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | One of the 'Frankfurt group': 1877-1901 -- 'A civilised bing': 1902-1903 -- Hampshire folk-song collecting: 1903-1906 -- Delius, Beecham and Hardy: 1907-1909 -- 'A place of enchantment': 1909-1911 -- 'Oriana will sing for me': 1912-1913 -- 'Full of unexpected harmonies': 1912-1914 -- 'The wasted years': 1914-1919 -- Philharmonic patronage: 1919-1922 -- 'None shall revive the flame that perisheth': 1922-1924 -- 'My substituted occupation': 1919-1927 -- 'If I might have two rows of trees': 1927-1933 -- 'This is a terrible time': 1934-1936 -- We are growing old': 1937-1950 -- Appendix B. Programmes for the Balfour Gardiner concerts. |
| Abstract | This is the first study of the life and music of Balfour Gardiner (1877-1950), a composer of some distinction and a generous patron of British music. But it is necessarily more than the story of just one man: it is an account of many friendships (chiefly musical) during that exciting period of British music's struggle out of mediocrity to prominence. It was Balfour Gardiner who, before the First World War, launched in Queen's Hall a remarkable series of concerts that did much to establish the reputations of several young composers. It was he, too, who made possible in a war-torn England the first performance of Holst's The Planets, and who gave considerable assistance to his close friend Delius, the plight of whose last years forms a tragic undercurrent to this book. The author brings to light for the first time the full story of this once greatly respected musician and benefactor. He has traced Gardiner's student days in Germany, his early struggles as a composer, his involvement first in the folk-song movement and later with the ill-fated Musical League, his extensive patronage of music, his dabbling in architecture, and his eventual forsaking of composition for afforestation, which proved an equally remarkable undertaking. |
| Bibliography note | Includes catalogue of works (pages 219-241), discography (pages 257-260), bibliographical references (pages 253-256), and index. |
| LCCN | 83014227 |
| ISBN | 0521256097 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Music | Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk | ML410.G1683 L6 1984 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |