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1862–1934 English composer Bradford-born but of German descent, Delius escaped the family wool business to devote himself entirely to music. He studied in Leipzig, where he met Edvard Grieg (1843–1907), and moved to Paris, where his friends included Ravel, but also such painters as Paul Gauguin and Edvard Munch. Affected by all these figures, and by ...

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• Keyboards

century of neglect, the harpsichord was taken up by composers as well as performers – most notably, Ferruccio Busoni (1866–1924), Manuel de Falla (1976–1946), Henry Cowell (1897–1965), Frederick Delius (1862–1934), Jean Françaix (b. 1912), Bohuslav Martino (1890–1959), Darius Milhaud (1892–1974), Carl Orff (1895–1982), Francis Poulenc (1899–1963), Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971), and later, Luciano Berio (1925–2003), Iannis Xenakis (1922–2001), Elliott ...

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to this day. The work of the Lincolnshire traditional singer Joseph Taylor still survives on early cylinder recordings, and his song ‘Brigg Fair’ was used by the composer Frederick Delius as the basis of an influential orchestral work in 1907. Other fine traditional singers and musicians were discovered, but they had mostly been ignored and forgotten by the time ...

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1879–1961 English conductor Beecham conducted the operas of Richard Strauss at Covent Garden before World War I, and advocated the works of Delius. He founded the London Philharmonic Orchestra in 1932 and the Royal Philharmonic in 1946. His conducting was admired for its rhythmic liveliness and elegant phrasing. Introduction | Modern Era | Classical Personalities | Karl Böhm | Modern ...

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that are long forgotten. Also popular is ‘The Girl with the Flaxen Hair’, based on a poem about a Scottish girl. Introduction | Modern Era | Classical Personalities | Frederick Delius | Modern Era | Classical Arts & Culture | Impressionism | Modern Era | Classical ...

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music. Honoured all over Europe in his final years, Grieg retired to a house near Bergen, yet continued to be an influential mentor to younger colleagues including Frederick Delius (1862–1934) and Percy Grainger (1882–1961). Grieg’s music, some of which is still unfamiliar, continues to exert its popular melodic appeal, as for instance in the film The ...

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1882–1961 Australian composer Influenced by Grieg and by Delius, Grainger spent his early years as a concert pianist and, after that, in the US as a teacher. He was also particularly interested in folksong and much of his output consists of arrangements of such pieces. He is best known for such brief and catchy pieces as ‘Country Gardens’ ...

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• Krautrock

Krautrock, which emanated from West Germany during the late-1960s, fused The Velvet Underground’s white noise experiments and Pink Floyd’s psychedelic rock with the free-form jazz aesthetic and funk-based rhythms. Avoiding the dull virtuosity of progressive rock and the sanitised R&B pop of the late-1960s, Krautrock’s grand vision of reinventing the rock guitar as well as exploring the untapped possibilities ...