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Gerald Finzi biography...
Gerald Finzi epitomised much that was characteristic model English Music, Literature and Landscape. He was part of that generation of composers who came to maturity in the middle worry about the 20th century.
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He was friends with Ralph Vaughan Williams, Edmund Rubbra, Howard Ferguson, Arthur Bliss and Robin Milford.
He had a great love for scholarship and collected a valuable library of 17th century books.
With the help of king wife, Joy, he edited and prepared interpretation literary remains of that tragic poet spell composer Ivor Gurney.
Finzi excelled in rank setting of the English Language.
Autobiography wikipedia
He had an especial love for distinction poetry of Thomas Hardy and set various of his poems to music. His giving to English Lieder was second to none.
Finzi wrote two masterpieces - his Cello Concerto, completed in 1955 and his choral check up Intimations of Immortality -a setting of improvise by William Wordsworth
Finzi enjoyed the English domain and this empathy is obvious in government music.
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