Gerald Finzi: His Life and Music

2006 ◽  
Vol 88 (1) ◽  
pp. 176-181
Author(s):  
B. Adams
Keyword(s):  
Gerald Finzi

Book Reviews

Tempo ◽  
1998 ◽  
pp. 25-31
Keyword(s):  
Mass Culture ◽  
List Type ◽  
Peter Grimes ◽  
Gerald Finzi

The Making of Peter Grimes David FarnethGerald Finzi: an English Composer Mike SmithErn Lendvai's Musical Symmetries Roy HowatAdorno, Modernism and Mass Culture Michael GraubartPoles Apart: The Music of Roger Smalley Mike Seabrook

Gerald Finzi: his life and music

2006 ◽  
Vol 43 (08) ◽  
pp. 43-4581-43-4581
Keyword(s):  
Gerald Finzi

GERALD FINZI (1901–1956)

1957 ◽  
Vol XXXVIII (2) ◽  
pp. 130-135
Author(s):  
HOWARD FERGUSON
Keyword(s):  
Gerald Finzi

Letters of Gerald Finzi and Howard Ferguson (review)

Notes ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Byron Adams
Keyword(s):  
Gerald Finzi

The Songs of Gerald Finzi

Tempo ◽  
1946 ◽  
pp. 7-12
Author(s):  
N. G. Long
Keyword(s):  
Potential Significance ◽  
Technical Research ◽  
Peter Grimes ◽  
Musical Achievement ◽  
Gerald Finzi

The period of sensationalism and experiment in music seems to be passing; of the giants of a period which was richer in technical research than in musical achievement it is the mature Bartók and the thoughtful Hindemith who alone seem to have sufficient vitality to interest a more balanced generation; and it is even possible in the most sophisticated circles to mention British composers without making a shamefaced apology. Indeed, the gap between popular and sophisticated opinion seems to be narrowing: Peter Grimes was a popular success; A Child of Our Time aroused widespread enthusiasm; and the concertos of even the redoubtable Bartók filled the Albert Hall. All this is a sign of a new and healthier orthodoxy. But one fundamental heresy is still widespread; it is the tendency to judge music not for what it is but for what it portends; to regard works exclusively in terms of their potential significance instead of in terms of their achievement; to make (as someone put it) “the best the enemy of the good.”

Gerald Finzi—An Appreciation

Tempo ◽  
1957 ◽  
pp. 5-6
Author(s):  
Arthur Bliss
Keyword(s):  
English Music ◽  
Gerald Finzi ◽  
Better Than

If a foreigner new to England wished to taste the special flavour of English music, and find wherein it differed from the music of his own country, he could do no better than study first the music of Gerald Finzi. Here he would come on music that exhales the very air of England.

Gerald Finzi and the Solo Song

Tempo ◽  
1954 ◽  
pp. 15-22
Author(s):  
C. M. Boyd
Keyword(s):  
Violin Concerto ◽  
Final Estimate ◽  
Song Writing ◽  
Gerald Finzi ◽  
Work Up ◽  
Clarinet Concerto

In recent years Gerald Finzi has produced lengthy works such as the setting of Wordsworth's “Intimations of Immortality” and the clarinet concerto which, together with the earlier violin concerto, show a definite grasp of composition in the more extended forms. Although neither these works nor the various pieces for chamber groups can be disregarded in a final estimate of the composer, it can be fairly confidently upheld that it is within the narrower confines of the solo song that Finzi has given us his best work up to the present time. This is not altogether surprising since his gifts are above all lyrical. To write a good song is no mean accomplishment; to find in song-writing, as Finzi has done, a definite personal expression and a consistent development of style is something which only a few composers either achieve or attempt.

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