Henry Balfour Gardiner
Henry Balfour Gardiner (born November 7, 1877 in London , † June 28, 1950 in Salisbury ) was an English composer.
Life
Gardiner studied at New College in Oxford and before and after that he took composition lessons at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt (as a member of the so-called Frankfurt Group ) with Iwan Knorr . He then taught music for a short time at Winchester College , emerged as a composer from around 1904, devoted himself to the collection of English folk music and championed contemporary English composers (e.g. Vaughan Williams , Bax , Holst ). After the First World War , he largely withdrew from public musical life. In his later years he devoted himself to a reforestation project on his farm in Dorset .
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Gardiner left behind a relatively narrow oeuvre of composition (he self-critically destroyed many of his works). A symphony, a string quintet, a string quartet as well as choral works, songs and piano pieces have been preserved. The orchestral piece Shepherds Fennel's Dance was popular in England at the time. His Evening Hymn is a romantic, opulent, harmoniously dense work and is considered a classic of the English choral repertoire. It is still sung regularly as the anthem at evening services in Anglican churches.
Others
Henry Balfour Gardiner was the older brother of the Egyptologist Alan Gardiner and the great-uncle of the English conductor John Eliot Gardiner .
Individual proof
- ↑ Stephen Lloyd: "Gardiner, (Henry) Balfour (1877-1950), composer." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 23 Sep 2004; Accessed August 23, 2020
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Gardiner, Henry Balfour |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 7, 1877 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 28, 1950 |
| Place of death | Salisbury |