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Author Huss, Fabian, author

Title The music of Frank Bridge / Fabian Huss
Published Woodbridge : Boydell & Brewer Ltd., 2015

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Description 1 online resource (272 pages)
Summary The English composer, violist, and conductor Frank Bridge (1879-1941), a student of Sir Charles Villiers Stanford, was one of the first modernists in British music, developing the most radical and lastingly modern musical language of his generation. Bridge was also one of the most accomplished British composers of chamber music in the twentieth century. After the lyrical romanticism of the early period, a notable expansion of style can be observed as early as 1913, leading eventually to the radical language of the Piano Sonata and Third String Quartet, drawing on influences such as Debussy, Stravinsky and the Second Viennese School composers. However, Bridge became frustrated that his later, more complex music was often ignored in favour of his earlier 'Edwardian' works; this neglect of his mature music contributed to the growing obscurity into which his music and reputation fell in his last years and after his death. Symptomatically, Bridge is still often remembered primarily for privately tutoring Benjamin Britten, who later championed his teacher's music and paid homage to him in the 'Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge' (1937).0
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Bridge, Frank, 1879-1941.
SUBJECT Bridge, Frank, 1879-1941. fast (OCoLC)fst00066980
Subject Composers -- England -- Biography
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Classical.
MUSIC -- Reference.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Composers & Musicians.
Composers.
England.
Genre/Form collective biographies.
Biographies.
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781782046103
1782046100