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	Gerald Finzi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the poetry of Hardy, Traherne, and later William Wordsworth, Finzi was attracted by the recurrent motif of the innocence of childhood corrupted by adult experience.
		Finzi never felt at home in the city and, having married the artist Joyce Black, settled with her in Aldbourne, Berkshire, where he devoted himself to composing and apple-growing, saving a number of rare English apple varieties from extinction.
		Finzi’s son, Christopher, inherited his pacifist sympathies as well as his musical talent and became a noted conductor and an exponent of his father’s music.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gerald_Finzi (1216 words)

	Obituaries for Gerald Finzi, 1956 - geraldfinzi.org
		Mr Gerald Finzi, who died yesterday in a nursing home at Oxford at the age of 55 after a short illness, was a composer whose work, already highly esteemed by musicians, was beginning to impress its merit upon a wider public.
		Gerald Finzi was born in London on July 14, 1901, and after attending private schools studied under Sir Edward Bairstow from 1918 to 1922 and then in 1925 under R.O. Morris for a few months.
		Gerald Finzi was in sympathy with almost every aspect of living, from music and poetry to the smallest details of running a house and garden.
	www.geraldfinzi.org /?page=about/article.html&id=5 (1846 words)

	Gerald Finzi & The Finzi Trust
		Gerald Finzi likened the creative artist to a 'coral reef insect, building his reef out of the transitory world around him and making a solid structure to last long after his own fragile and uncertain life'.
		Finzi's music is rooted in the tradition of Elgar, Parry, Vaughan Williams and those composers in the opening decades of the century for whom, like Ivor Gurney, song writing was a principal means of expression.
		For Finzi, the choice and the rare, be it music, fine writing or simply a sweet tasting apple were joys to perpetuate.
	www.hyperion-records.co.uk /societies/finzi.html (452 words)

	Gerald Finzi
		Finzi argued well and passionately about how wrong Hitler was to segregate Jews from German life but never spoke about his own connection to the issue.
		Finzi devoted his life to his wife, Joy, and his sons, Christopher and Nigel; to his passion for pomology, especially the preservation of different varieties of apples; to editing and publishing the works of other British composers; but most of all, to his music.
		Finzi is best known for his vocal music, for example, Intimations of Immortality, a setting of the poetry of Wordsworth, and his music for winds, especially his Clarinet Concerto.
	www.jochnowitz.net /Essays/Finzi.html (738 words)

	Gerald Finzi: Biography
		Gerald Finzi was born in London on July 14, 1901, and spent his early childhood in London.
		During the war years Gerald Finzi was drafted into the Ministry of War Transport and opened his house to a number of German and Czech refugees.
		In 1951, however, Finzi learned that he was suffering from Hodgkin's Disease, a form of leukaemia, and was told he had between five and ten years to live.
	content.blackcountry.com /finzi/biography.php (586 words)

	Christopher Finzi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He is the son of composer Gerald Finzi.
		Like his father, the younger Finzi became a pacifist; he refused to do his National Service, and was briefly imprisoned.
		From 1971 to 1997, Finzi was resident conductor of the North Wiltshire Orchestra.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Christopher_Finzi (220 words)

	Gerald Finzi - A Brief Biography. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It was during his early life that Finzi first became aware of the transience of life- one of the major themes of his music.
		Gerald and Joy Finzi built a lovely home at Ashmansworth on the Berkshire Hills overlooking a large stretch of typically English countryside towards Winchester.
		Gerald Finzi was diagnosed as having Hodgkinson's Disease in 1951.
	www.musicweb.uk.net /finzi/biography.htm (1088 words)

	Gerald Finzi: British Composer: MusicWeb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Gerald Finzi epitomised much that was characteristic of English Music, Literature and Landscape.
		Finzi enjoyed the English countryside and this empathy is obvious in his music.
		Yet Finzi's fear that his life would not be long enough to say all that he had wanted to say was proved to be correct.
	www.musicweb.uk.net /finzi (262 words)

	Linn Records: the real sound of music, classical, jazz and folk CDs
		Finzi’s settings are for the large part simple, elegant and extremely beautiful; his manner is often that used in setting sacred texts (which, in many ways, he was): agogic accents, subtle dissonance and changes in texture pluck out a word, add a more indirect commentary or steer a change in mood.
		Finzi’s songs for tenor are often less dramatic than his songs for baritone, placing more on the performer’s ability to draw meaning and colour from their simplicity.
		Gerald Finzi was less concerned to add to the poems he loved than to share them with other music lovers; he believed that fine poems were complete in themselves, and his approach is 'only to gild the lily'.
	www.linnrecords.com /cd_information/album_review.asp?RecordingID=329 (3288 words)

	Gerald Finzi - Welcome - geraldfinzi.org
		Gerald Finzi is one of the most admired British composers of the 20th Century.
		The Finzi Friends was formed in 1982 to further interest in Gerald Finzi's life and work and bring together people with similar interest.
		Finzi's music continues to diversify: performances have been given recently by the London Gay Men's Chorus, arrangements have been made for brass band and wind band, and Finzi's music is heard increasingly on the soundtracks to mainstream movies.
	www.geraldfinzi.org (369 words)

	Gerald Finzi his Life and Music
		Diana McVeagh is the author of Edward Elgar: His Life and Music; of the entries on Elgar and Finzi for The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1980, 2001); and of the Finzi entry in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004).
		Gerald Finzi is one of the best-known C20th English composers.
		The Finzi that emerges is a multi-faceted and complex character.
	www.boydell.co.uk /britmusic4.htm (341 words)

	Tower Records - Finzi: Clarinet Concerto, etc / Plane, Griffiths, et al (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Clarinet Concerto by Gerald Finzi is one of the glories of English music and it is given a splendid performance by Robert Plane under the auspices of the Northern Sinfonia.
		Finzi is a master at creating an atmosphere of romantic reverie and longing for the characters set at the court of the King of Navarre.
		Gerald Finzi may not have been a major composer, but his death from leukemia in 1956 robbed the musical world of a distinctly personal voice.
	www.towerrecords.com /product.aspx?pfid=1509774 (537 words)

	Ivor Gurney Poet-Composer - Gurney's Friends' Biographies
		Gerald Finzi met Joyce Black when he rented a cottage from her in the early 1930s and had to call on her for help because a problem with the flue caused the cottage to fill with smoke.
		After Finzi’s death in 1956, Joy along with her sons and Howard Ferguson founded the Finzi Trust and under its auspices most of Gerald’s music was recorded, first with Lyrita and later by Hyperion, Chandos and EMI.
		Gerald Finzi did no favours for posterity when he called Marion Scott a “possessive, incompetent, mulish old maid” and a “fragile fool” and referred to her unflatteringly as “Maid Marion”.
	www.geneva.edu /~dksmith/gurney/contemporaries.html (5583 words)

	Amazon.ca: Gerald Finzi: An English Composer: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Finzi's compositions reflect a strain of English Romanticism born of his love for the Hampshire countryside, yet his lifelong attempt to reconcile his "Englishness" with his Italian Jewish heritage led to an undercurrent of mystery and pathos in much of his work.
		Seen from this more detached viewpoint, Finzi was a close friend of Vaughan Williams as well as a familiar of Bliss, but a composer of nowhere near their abilities -- most characteristically, a man who did small things well, as in his settings of poems by Hardy, Wordsworth, and Traherne.
		In this first major biography of Finzi, Banfield (who has a long record of devotion to researching the composer's career for musicology publications) does an excellent job of attempting to place Finzi into perspective between the two views of him from the small and the large ends of the telescope.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0571195989 (983 words)

	Gerald Finzi Music Collection
		It is largely the working collection (apart from the miniature scores) of her husband, the composer, Gerald Finzi, though it also contains music given to him by the daughter of Sir Hubert Parry.
		Gerald Finzi's literary collection is housed in the Finzi Book Room in the Main Library Whiteknights.
		Mrs Finzi also gave the library some 700 sets of orchestral parts accumulated by the Newbury String Players, a group formed and conducted by Gerald Finzi and later his son, Christopher.
	www.library.rdg.ac.uk /colls/special/finzimus.html (322 words)

	GERALD FINZI, COMPOSER: His Life & Music: a Brief Overview
		Finzi’s output is not large, and his life was cut short when he was diagnosed with a fatal disease when he was about 50 and died a few years later.
		Finzi’s music inherited some of Vaughan Williams’ pastoral vein, and his music is subtle and refined, usually avoiding massive gestures or weighty pronouncements.
		Finzi again captures the darkness and sunshine of life at an intimately personal level, rather than a vast, epic level.
	www.geocities.com /hansenk69/finzi.html (636 words)

	Naxos.com, Your World of Classical Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Gerald Finzi (1901-56) decided to become a composer at the age of nine.
		Finzi’s reputation grew during the 1930s with performances of his Hardy song-sets A Young Man’s Exhortation (1926-9), and Earth and Air and Rain (1928-32), and was consolidated with the premiere in 1940 of his cantata for high voice and strings Dies natalis (mid 1920s, 1938-9).
		In September of 1956, Finzi contracted chicken-pox, which in his weakened state led to a swelling of the brain.
	www.naxos.com /mainsite?pn=Composers&char=F&ComposerID=341 (476 words)

	GMCD 7155 - Evening Watch
		Four very different composers are represented: Holst and Finzi belong aesthetically to the first half of the century, whereas the music of both Leighton and Schuman speaks with a more contemporary voice.
		In Lo, the full, final sacrifice (1949), possibly Finzi’s choral masterpiece, the theme is Death conquered by Christ, and it is one of two works on the disc with a Metaphysical text, Richard Crashaw’s paraphrase of Thomas Aquinas’ Adoro Te and Lauda Sion.
		These are sumptuous words to which Finzi felt closely akin, and although the setting is heavily sectionalized, a general arch-structure is built up with a climactic loud section towards the middle and a recapitulation of opening material just before the final Amen.
	www.guildmusic.com /catalog/gui7155z.htm (825 words)

	BBC - Radio 3 - Music Matters - Gerald Finzi
		He and his wife Joy Finzi, brought up their two sons at Church Farm in a charming rural paradise.
		The home was also a perfect setting for Finzi to indulge his passion for apple-growing, and to compose many of his best-known works.
		Finzi's story turns out to be one of a music which fuses creativity with landscape.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio3/musicmatters/pip/yvufj (457 words)

	Classical Net Review - Finzi - Violin Concerto, etc.
		I always think of Gerald Finzi as the English Fauré, mainly because of his songs.
		Finzi's songs sound right, rather than labored, although he often spent many years getting them into that state.
		Perhaps Finzi was drawn to a certain outlook or mood from work to work.
	www.classical.net /music/recs/reviews/c/cha09888a.html (841 words)

	John Russell FRCM (1916-1990). A personal memoir of a friend and teacher, with reference to his friendship with Gerald ...
		John Russell, the conductor and pianist, heard Gerald Finzi's music for the 1st time by accident -- it was the cantata Dies Natalis at the 1947 Three Choirs Festival.
		Finzi was a widely-read, cultivated man, whose activities in addition to his own composing produced scholarly editions of eighteenth century works by Stanley, Boyce, Mudge and others.
		In 1948 Finzi recommended him for the conductorship of the Newbury Choral Society, a post he was to occupy for thirty years.
	www.mvdaily.com /articles/2003/09/russell04.htm (666 words)

	Finzi, Gerald (1901 - 1956) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Of Italian Jewish ancestry, Gerald Finzi was among the most English of composers, spending much of his life in the countryside of Hampshire and later near Newbury, where the string orchestra he founded became an important vehicle for the performance of his music.
		Finzi's orchestral music includes a Clarinet Concerto and a Cello Concerto, with a Grand Fantasia and Toccata for piano and orchestra.
		Choral music by Finzi's demonstrates his wide knowledge of English literature, with settings of poems by near contemporaries such as Edmund Blunden and Robert Bridges and by the 17th century poets Crashaw, Traherne and Vaughan.
	www.naxos.com /composer/finzi.htm (205 words)

	Amazon.com: Gerald Finzi: Cello Concerto / Kenneth Leighton: Suite "Veris Gratia" Op. 9 - Raphael Wallfisch / Royal ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Finzi's Cello Concerto (1955) is completely non-traditional, starting with a strange turbulent mood, shifting back and forth to a peculiar pizzacato-introduced last movement.
		Finzi's Cello Concerto doesn't bring to mind the usual placid stereotypes of the so-called British "pastoral school" of composers (as he is invariably categorized).
		The musical shadows cast over the cello concerto remind us that Finzi was all too aware of his own impending death while composing the work; he died from cancer only about 12 months after the concerto was premiered in 1955.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000000AEO?v=glance (729 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Gerald Finzi - Violin Concerto: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Gerald Finzi wrote his Violin Concerto in the mid-1920s for Sybil Eaton (a gifted young artist with whom he had become infatuated).
		The arrangements of the songs in the Years Defaced cycle are wonderfully sympathetic to the Finzi heritage and performed with glorious tone and diction.
		The violin Concerto is typical Finzi and rapturous as might be anticipated.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000056KNH (735 words)

	Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music
		Gerald Finzi's choral music never has achieved popularity on the level of works by composers such as Stanford, Vaughan Williams, or Elgar, and in general this is because by comparison it's not as well-organized, the inner structural details aren't as carefully developed, and the balance of text with musical ideas isn't as facile.
		As a result, many of Finzi's choral pieces sound just a bit labored, a bit more difficult than they need to be, the structural edges a bit rough, the overall concept unpolished.
		Not that Finzi is a careless or inept craftsman.
	www.classicstoday.com /review.asp?ReviewNum=6671 (379 words)

	Amazon.ca: Choral Wks: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Finzi Singers approach these compositions with such enthusiasm and obvious love for the music that you can't help but feel your heart swell and the occasional tear come to your eye.
		As might be expected, The Finzi Singers produce loving renditions of works great and small, in which a good balance of sacred and secular texts (some by renowned poets) is created.
		Not everyone will find the disc to their taste- for a twentieth century composer, Finzi seems more at home writing in the style of the partsongs of the previous century and this leads to some works sounding pedestrian or uninteresting.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000000AMD (554 words)

	Gerald Finzi - Classical music composer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		His instrumental compositions are lyrical and at times have a distinctly English melancholy, as seen in his vast Cello Concerto (the last work he wrote) which takes the listener through the whole gamut of emotions which a composer, with his life literally hanging in the balance (from leukaemia), experienced.
		As an introduction to Finzi's skill as a songwriter look no further than his masterpiece of the Shakespeare setting, 'Let us Garlands Bring.' Gerald Finzi may have left us few works, but they are have such polish and complete mastery, that one wonders why they are not more popular.
		Pas in 1954, toen hij reeds drie jaar ziek was, werd Finzi volwaardig in het Britse muziekleven erkend.
	www.classical-composers.org /cgi-bin/ccd.cgi?comp=finzi (1088 words)

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