Saturday 1 January 2022

New Year's Greetings

A Happy and Prosperous New Year
To All Readers of
The Land of Lost Content

 Some Significant (and less so) British Composer Anniversaries for 2022: 

Bi-Centenaries:
Charles Edward Horsley
Henry Albert Lambeth
Henry David Leslie
Henry Wylde

150 Years:
Frederick Austin
Felix Borowski
Herman Finck
James Lyon
Alexander Maclean
Vincent Thomas
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Richard Henry Walthew

Centenaries:
Doreen Carwithen
Iain Hamilton
Thomas Eastwood
Timothy Moore
Ronald Smith
David Stone
Peter Tranchell
John Veale

Clearly, the main celebration in 2022 will be the 150th Anniversary of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s birth on 12 October. Of significant interest are the Centenaries of Iain Hamilton, Doreen Carwithen and John Veale. Somehow, I feel that these three composers will be underplayed in the concert hall, on the radio and in the recording studio.

Of interest are the Centenaries of the American composer Lukas Foss and the Greek-French Iannis Xenakis. The year 1872 saw the birth of the Russian composer Aleksandr Scriabin. Finally, celebrating their 200th Anniversary are German-Swiss Joseph Joachim Raff and the Belgian César Franck.

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