Frank Bridge

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Frank Bridge (born February 26, 1879 in Brighton , † January 10, 1941 in Eastbourne ) was an English composer , violist and conductor and is today one of the most important composers in Great Britain despite his not very extensive work .

career

Frank Bridge began his career as a rehearsal conductor for various chamber orchestras . After Henry Wood used him more and more frequently for the direction of various promenade concerts, his fame grew. Bridge was also a music teacher, his most important student was Benjamin Britten . At the beginning of his career, he composed a work of variations for strings on a theme by Bridge. This work received international attention, from which Bridge could also benefit (see web links: Barnett).

Works

Bridge wrote mainly chamber music and some large-scale orchestral works, initially in a conventional style, but over time his works have become more modern in structure. While his early work The Sea (tone poem) offers a splendid representation of the sea in all possible moods and facets from tragic to idyllic, his late work Enter Spring (tone poem) offers clear echoes of Arnold Schönberg's twelve-tone music .

Complete directory

Orchestral works

  • The Sea
  • Dance Rhapsody
  • Buzzer
  • Isabella
  • A Prayer (after Thomas a Kempis ) for choir and orchestra
  • Overture Rebus
  • Enter Spring
  • There Is a Willow Grows Aslant a Brook
  • Oration, concerto for violoncello and orchestra

Chamber music (selection)

  • Sonata in D minor H. 125 for violoncello and piano
  • Berceuse in B flat major for violin or violoncello and piano
  • Serenade for violoncello and piano
  • Romance for violin and piano
  • Élégie for violoncello and piano
  • Norse Legend in G minor for violin and piano
  • Gondoleria in E minor for violin and piano
  • Cradle Song in F major for violin or violoncello and piano
  • 4 short pieces (meditation in C major, Spring Song in G major, Lullaby in D major, Country Dance in B major) for violin or violoncello and piano
  • Three Idylls for string quartet

literature

  • Trevor Bray: Frank Bridge . In: Ludwig Finscher (Ed.): MGG . tape 3 . Bärenreiter Verlag, 2000, Sp. 886-891 .

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personal data
SURNAME Bridge, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English composer
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Brighton
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 1941
Place of death Eastbourne