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Composer Anniversaries for 2013

Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Centenary of Birth

George Lloyd (1913-1998) Centenary of Birth

Cedric Thorpe Davie (1913-1983) Centenary of Birth

Some Important Works that are Celebrating Significant Anniversaries include:-

100 years Ago:-

Arnold Bax: Scherzo for Orchestra [piano version: scored for orchestra 1933] Spring Fire for Orchestra [Composed fp. 1914]

Frank Bridge: Dance Poem for orchestra [Composed]

George Butterworth: Banks Of Green Willow, Idyll for Orchestra
Hamilton Harty: The Mystic Trumpeter, Cantata
Gustav Holst: St Paul's Suite, for Strings [composed 1912-13]
Herbert Howells: Piano Concerto No 1 [completed by John Rutter]

John Ireland: The Forgotten Rite, for Orchestra [Composed] Decorations for Piano [composed fp. 1919?]

Cyril Scott: Nativity Hymn, for Chorus and Orchestra [Completed fp. 1914]

Charles Villiers Stanford: Irish Rhapsody No.4 ‘The Fisherman of Lough Neagh and what he saw.’ [Composed fp. 1914]
Ralph Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony (Symphony No 2) [Completed f.p. 1914]

2013 is also the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Death of:-

Julius Harrison (1885-1963)

William Henry Squire (1871-1963)

The 50th Anniversary Compositions will feature in a subsequent post.