Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Neil Powell: ‘Music’
- Introduction
- Dana Gioia: ‘Lives of the Great Composers’
- Thomas Tallis (1505–85)
- William Byrd (?1543–1623)
- John Dowland (?1563–1626)
- Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643)
- Gregorio Allegri (1582–1652)
- Orlando Gibbons (1583–1625)
- Dietrich Buxtehude (1637–1707)
- Henry Purcell (1659–95)
- François Couperin (1668–1733)
- Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741)
- Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683–1764)
- Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
- George Frideric Handel (1685–1759)
- Domenico Scarlatti (1685–1757)
- Christoph Willibald von Gluck (1714–87)
- Franz Joseph Haydn (1732–1809)
- Antonio Salieri (1750–1825)
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–91)
- Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
- Niccolò Paganini (1782–1840)
- John Field (1782–1837)
- Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
- Hector Berlioz (1803–69)
- Felix Mendelssohn (1809–47)
- Fryderyk Chopin (1810–49)
- Robert Schumann (1810–56)
- Franz Liszt (1811–86)
- Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901)
- Richard Wagner (1813–83)
- Anton Bruckner (1824–96)
- Bedřich Smetana (1824–84)
- Johannes Brahms (1833–97)
- Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921)
- Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840–93)
- Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904)
- Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900)
- Edvard Grieg (1843–1907)
- Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924)
- Leoš Janáček (1854–1928)
- Edward Elgar (1857–1934)
- Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924)
- Hugo Wolf (1860–1903)
- Gustav Mahler (1860–1911)
- Frederick Delius (1862–1934)
- Claude Debussy (1862–1918)
- Richard Strauss (1864–1949)
- Jean Sibelius (1865–1957)
- Erik Satie (1866–1925)
- Amy Beach (1867–1944)
- Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958)
- Sergei Rachmaninov (1873–1943)
- Gustav Holst (1874–1934)
- Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951)
- Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)
- Ottorino Respighi (1879–1936)
- Béla Bartók (1881–1945)
- Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
- Percy Grainger (1882–1961)
- Arnold Bax (1883–1953)
- Anton Webern (1883–1945)
- Alban Berg (1885–1935)
- George Butterworth (1885–1916)
- Bohuslav Martinů (1890–1959)
- Ivor Gurney (1890–1937)
- Sergey Prokofiev (1891–1953)
- Peter Warlock (Philip Heseltine) (1894–1930)
- Francis Poulenc (1899–1963)
- Aaron Copland (1900–90)
- Gerald Finzi (1901–56)
- Michael Tippett (1905–98)
- Dmitry Shostakovich (1906–75)
- Olivier Messiaen (1908–92)
- Samuel Barber (1910–81)
- John Cage (1912–92)
- Benjamin Britten (1913–76)
- Witold Lutosławski (1913–94)
- György Ligeti (1923–2006)
- Harrison Birtwistle (b.1934)
- Peter Maxwell Davies (b.1934)
- Arvo Pärt (b.1935)
- Epilogue
- Composers
- Poets
- Acknowledgements
- Index of First Lines
- Index of Titles
Witold Lutosławski (1913–94)
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Neil Powell: ‘Music’
- Introduction
- Dana Gioia: ‘Lives of the Great Composers’
- Thomas Tallis (1505–85)
- William Byrd (?1543–1623)
- John Dowland (?1563–1626)
- Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643)
- Gregorio Allegri (1582–1652)
- Orlando Gibbons (1583–1625)
- Dietrich Buxtehude (1637–1707)
- Henry Purcell (1659–95)
- François Couperin (1668–1733)
- Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741)
- Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683–1764)
- Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
- George Frideric Handel (1685–1759)
- Domenico Scarlatti (1685–1757)
- Christoph Willibald von Gluck (1714–87)
- Franz Joseph Haydn (1732–1809)
- Antonio Salieri (1750–1825)
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–91)
- Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
- Niccolò Paganini (1782–1840)
- John Field (1782–1837)
- Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
- Hector Berlioz (1803–69)
- Felix Mendelssohn (1809–47)
- Fryderyk Chopin (1810–49)
- Robert Schumann (1810–56)
- Franz Liszt (1811–86)
- Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901)
- Richard Wagner (1813–83)
- Anton Bruckner (1824–96)
- Bedřich Smetana (1824–84)
- Johannes Brahms (1833–97)
- Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921)
- Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840–93)
- Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904)
- Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900)
- Edvard Grieg (1843–1907)
- Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924)
- Leoš Janáček (1854–1928)
- Edward Elgar (1857–1934)
- Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924)
- Hugo Wolf (1860–1903)
- Gustav Mahler (1860–1911)
- Frederick Delius (1862–1934)
- Claude Debussy (1862–1918)
- Richard Strauss (1864–1949)
- Jean Sibelius (1865–1957)
- Erik Satie (1866–1925)
- Amy Beach (1867–1944)
- Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958)
- Sergei Rachmaninov (1873–1943)
- Gustav Holst (1874–1934)
- Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951)
- Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)
- Ottorino Respighi (1879–1936)
- Béla Bartók (1881–1945)
- Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
- Percy Grainger (1882–1961)
- Arnold Bax (1883–1953)
- Anton Webern (1883–1945)
- Alban Berg (1885–1935)
- George Butterworth (1885–1916)
- Bohuslav Martinů (1890–1959)
- Ivor Gurney (1890–1937)
- Sergey Prokofiev (1891–1953)
- Peter Warlock (Philip Heseltine) (1894–1930)
- Francis Poulenc (1899–1963)
- Aaron Copland (1900–90)
- Gerald Finzi (1901–56)
- Michael Tippett (1905–98)
- Dmitry Shostakovich (1906–75)
- Olivier Messiaen (1908–92)
- Samuel Barber (1910–81)
- John Cage (1912–92)
- Benjamin Britten (1913–76)
- Witold Lutosławski (1913–94)
- György Ligeti (1923–2006)
- Harrison Birtwistle (b.1934)
- Peter Maxwell Davies (b.1934)
- Arvo Pärt (b.1935)
- Epilogue
- Composers
- Poets
- Acknowledgements
- Index of First Lines
- Index of Titles
Summary
Playing Lutoslawski in Grasmere Church
Is tragedy suitable at any time?
Can sun or holidays lend a rhyme,
as they did today, calling us from here
to Warsaw in one long drawing of a bow?
Yes, at any time, and better
coming from a player who was born
so the programme says, way after the music.
All so young, and into youthfulness was slipped
this whisper from the camps.
In the heart of the festival and the heat,
the funeral days were back.
DAVID SCOTT
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