• Gerald Raphael Finzi (14 July 1901 – 27 September 1956) was a British composer. Finzi is best known as a choral composer, but also wrote in other genres...
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  • The early-twentieth-century British composer Gerald Finzi (1901–1956) is recognized largely for several song cycles, setting texts from a wide selection...
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  • "Kiffer" Finzi (12 July 1934 — 28 November 2019) was a British orchestral conductor. He was the son of composer Gerald Finzi and artist Joy Finzi. Born in...
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  • husband, composer Gerald Finzi. She was born Joyce Amy Black in Hampstead, London in 1907. She studied music and art, and married Finzi in 1933. They had...
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  • Jacqueline du Pré. Du Pré was married to conductor Christopher Finzi, the son of composer Gerald Finzi, from 1961 until his death in 2019. They had four children...
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  • cantata composed in 1938–1939 by the twentieth-century English composer Gerald Finzi (1901–1956). It is a solo vocal cantata scored for a solo soprano or...
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  • Us Garlands Bring is a song cycle for baritone and piano composed by Gerald Finzi between 1929 and 1942, and published as his Op. 18. It consists of five...
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  • composer Bruno Finzi (1899–1974), Italian mathematician, engineer, and physicist Gerald Finzi (1901–56), British composer his wife, Joy Finzi (1907–1991)...
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  • Cinnamon (born Gerald Crosbie, 1984), Scottish musician Gerald Finzi (1901–1956), British composer Gerald Fried (1928–2023), American composer Gerald Harper (born...
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    is gone up" have been composed by William Croft, Arthur Hutchings and Gerald Finzi (words by Edward Taylor). Other settings suitable for the occasion include...
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  • By Footpath and Stile (category Song cycles by Gerald Finzi)
    is a song cycle for baritone and string quartet by English composer Gerald Finzi (1901-1956) set to poems by Thomas Hardy (1840-1928). Composed between...
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  • Lo, the full, final sacrifice (category Compositions by Gerald Finzi)
    (Op. 26) is a festival anthem for SATB choir and organ, composed by Gerald Finzi in 1946. The work was commissioned by the Revd Walter Hussey for the...
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    Montague Leverson was the maternal grandfather of British composer Gerald Finzi. Rantzen is also related to Ada Leverson, a British writer and friend...
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  • Earth and Air and Rain (category Song cycles by Gerald Finzi)
    Earth and Air and Rain is a song cycle for baritone and piano by Gerald Finzi (1901–56). It was composed between 1928 and 1935, and published in 1936 as...
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    the work of Gerald Finzi, who was a friend. He first sang Finzi's Dies natalis in 1952 under the composer's baton, and was to become Finzi's favoured soloist...
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  • chorus, and orchestra, is one of the best-known works by English composer Gerald Finzi. It is a setting of nine of the eleven stanzas (all but the seventh and...
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  • the Diaghilev Ballet. At around this time he became firm friends with Gerald Finzi. In 1941, Rubbra was called up for army service. After 18 months he was...
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    (Churchdown) and Ivor Gurney who knows it". Another contemporary of theirs, Gerald Finzi, lived in nearby Painswick.[citation needed] Gustav Holst, who was born...
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    Howells' A Hymn to Saint Cecilia has words by Ursula Vaughan Williams; Gerald Finzi's "For Saint Cecilia", Op. 30, was set to verses written by Edmund Blunden;...
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    he named "Lambert's Clavichord". Howells also introduced Lambert to Gerald Finzi, whose 1936 Interlude for oboe & string quartet, Op. 21 was inspired...
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    reference] Victoria Duval, American tennis player, was diagnosed in 2014. Gerald Finzi, British composer, was diagnosed in 1951 and died in 1956. Mist Edvardsdóttir...
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    Warlock (1924); Arthur Somervell (1927); Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (1936); Gerald Finzi (1942); Erich Korngold (1943); Peter Racine Fricker (1961); Sven-Eric...
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  • preserved Gurney's manuscripts and letters and worked with composer Gerald Finzi to ensure that his legacy should not be forgotten. On 11 November 1985...
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    represented by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Benjamin Britten, Ivor Gurney, and Gerald Finzi, were often folk-like in idiom.[citation needed] "lied". Collins English...
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    designer and weaver of tapestries and rugs Sebastian Faulks (1953–), author Gerald Finzi (1901–1956), composer and founder of the Newbury String Players Jill...
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  • Players was an English string orchestra founded in 1940 by the composer Gerald Finzi, to give concerts at a period, during the Second World War, when there...
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  • In 1997 Banfield was commissioned by the Finzi Trust to write the first full length biography of Gerald Finzi. For the BBC, Banfield wrote and presented...
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    Einar Englund – Piano Concerto No. 1 Ferenc Farkas – Bukki Varlatok Gerald Finzi – Cello Concerto Henryk Mikołaj Górecki – Four Preludes, Op. 1 Toccata...
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    Oxford Bachelor of Music in 1951. At Oxford he came to the attention of Gerald Finzi, an early supporter and friend, who performed some of his works (e.g...
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    closely with local conductor Julian Clifford and took on the 14-year-old Gerald Finzi as a composition pupil. In 1913, he married Olive Mason in South Shields...
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