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« Reply #15 on: January 03, 2013, 09:48:02 pm » |
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If you are looking for composers contemporary with Fricker-ie composers born within three years of his birth date of 1920-then I could mention:
1917: Richard Arnell; John Gardner
1920: Geoffrey Bush
1921; Sir Malcolm Arnold; Ruth Gipps; Robert Simpson
1922: Iain Hamilton; John Veale
1923: Arthur Butterworth
Now, of these nine some are obvious romantics(eg Arnell) or in the mainstream of the British symphonic tradition, influenced by Vaughan Williams or Sibelius(eg Gardner, Bush, Arnold, Gipps, Veale, Butterworth). The three who stand out as more obviously modern are Simpson and Hamilton; but, again, Simpson is influenced by Beethoven, Bruckner and Nielsen).
Fricker and Hamilton are the two composers who push tonality, who were influenced by more of the contemporary European mainstream(Bartok, Stravinsky etc) and both have disappeared without trace from our record labels and our concert halls.
I am by no means an advocate for "modernist music" ;D I love the music of the British traditionalists.......but the absolute and total neglect of Fricker and Hamilton (not to mention my "heroes" of the earlier generation: Arnold Cooke, William Wordsworth and Daniel Jones) is a scandal >:(
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