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The round Sumer is icumen in (c1300) demonstrates the ground-breaking skills of English composers, as do fragments from Worcester Cathedral. The Old Hall manuscript (c1410 - 1450) shows the first ...
The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. The Musical Times and Singing Class Circ... The Musical Times and Singing Class Circular Vol. 22, No. 460, Jun. 1, 1881 English Composers and Their ...
For 80 years, the haunting melodies of Auschwitz lay buried in silence, hidden among the archives of one of history’s darkest chapters. Now, for the first time, this lost music – composed by ...
Tansy Davies (b.1973) is an English composer of contemporary classical music. She won the BBC Young Composers' Competition in 1996 and has written works for ensembles such as the London Symphony ...
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912) was a British composer who studied at the Royal College of Music and had early success at Gloucester Festival with his 1898 ‘Ballade in A Minor’. Named after the ...
George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) was a German-British baroque composer, famous for his operas, oratorios, anthems and organ concertos. Most music lovers have encountered George Frideric Handel ...
Two new funds supported by the celebrated British composer have been set up in collaboration with the Royal Philharmonic ...