Hubert Bath

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Hubert Charles Bath (born November 6, 1883 in Barnstaple , Devon , † April 24, 1945 in Harefield (now the London Borough of Hillingdon )) was an English composer and conductor .

Life

Bath was the son of a teacher and church choir director. At the age of 17 he came to the Royal Academy of Music , where he studied piano, organ and composition with Frederick Corder . As a conductor he worked for the Quinlan Opera Company and the Carl Rosa Opera Company ; he was music director of London County Council and director of an opera class. He became known through numerous film scores that he wrote from 1929.

His son John Bath (1915-2004) was also active as a film music composer.

Compositions

Stage works

  • The Spanish Student (1904). Libretto: after Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • Young England . Operetta (music together with George Clutsam). Libretto: Basil Hood. Premiere 1915 Birmingham (?) (1916 London (Daly's Theater)?)
  • from it the song Sweethearts and Wives
  • Bubbole . Libretto:?. Premiere 1920 Milan
  • Bubbles libretto:?. Premiere November 26, 1923 Belfast ( Carl Rosa Opera Company)
  • The Sire de Maletroit's Door (one act). Libretto:?
  • The Three Strangers (one act). Libretto: after Thomas Hardy
  • Trilby . Libretto: after Gerald du Maurier

Vocal compositions

Cantatas

  • The Jackdaw of Rheims for male choir
  • Men on the Line for male choir
  • Psyche's Departure
  • Orpheus and The Sirens
  • The Legend of Nerbudda (1908)
  • The Wedding of Shon Maclean (1909). WP 1910 Leeds Festival
  • Look at the clock. Welsh Rhapsody (1910)
  • The Wake of O'Connor (1913)

Choral movements

  • The Heart of the Night (1910)
  • When You Sing (1911)
  • Voices of the Air (1911). Three songs for mixed choir (SAATBB)
Inside: Dream-wind (“When, like a sleeping child…”). Text: William Sharp (under the pseudonym Fiona Macleod )

Piano songs

  • The bells of youth (“The Bells of Youth are ringing in the gateways of the South…”; 1907). Text: William Sharp (pseudonym Fiona Macleod )
  • Eily (1908). Text: William Sharp (author) William Sharp (pseudonym Fiona Macleod )
  • Hushing song (“Eilidh, Eilidh…”; 1909). Text (1896): William Sharp (pseudonym Fiona Macleod )
  • The bugles of Dreamland (1909). Text (1896): William Sharp (pseudonym Fiona Macleod )
  • Destiny (“Somewhere there waiteth in this world of ours”; 1911). Text (1853): Edwin Arnold (1832–1904)
  • Evoë. A Sea Sketch (“Oceanward, the sea-horses sweep magnificently…”; before 1945). Text (1896): William Sharp (pseudonym Fiona Macleod )
  • Love in a cottage . Text: William Sharp (pseudonym Fiona Macleod )
  • Bedtime Ballads . Texts:?
  • It Was a Golfer and his Lass . Text:?
  • Three Indian Songs . Texts:?
  • Songs for the “ballad opera” Polly (1920s). Texts:?
  • The Vikings' War Song . Text:?
  • The Jolly Roger . Text:?
  • Sea memories . Text:?

Melodramas

  • The elfin shoemaker (“Little Cowboy, what have you heard…”; before 1912). Text (1865): William Allingham (1824 [28?] - 1889)
  • Death-in-Love (“There came an image in Life's retinue…”; 1912?) For speaking voice, piano, organ, 3 violins and 3 cellos. Text (1870): Dante Gabriel Rossetti
  • Fairies (“Up the aery mountain…”). Text (1850): William Allingham (1824 [28?] - 1889)

Instrumental music

For orchestra

  • Summer Nights Waltz (1901)
  • Two Sea Pictures . Premiere 1909 London ( Proms , conductor: Henry Wood )
  • African suite . Premiere 1915 London (Proms, conductor: Henry Wood)
  • The Visions of Hannele . Symphonic poem (1913, new version 1920) (based on the piece Hanneles Himmelfahrt [1893] by Gerhart Hauptmann )
  • Two Japanese Sketches (also version for piano)
  • Egyptian Suite (also version for piano)
  • The Norwegian Suite for Small Orchestra
  • Scenes from the Prophets . Oriental suite
  • Pierrette by the Steam
  • Woodland Scenes
  • Troubadour Suites 1 & 2
  • Petite Suite Romantique
  • Devonia
1.  Prelude. Breeze at Hartland Point - 2nd  Melodie d'amour. Lorna of Exmoor - 3rd  Sea Dogs of Devon. Nautical march
  • Midshipman Easy . Overture (based on the story of the same name [1836] by Frederick Marryat )

For wind orchestra ( brass band )

  • Freedom (1922)
  • Honor and Glory (1931)
  • Out of the blue. Marine Four-step or Eva Three-step (1931; since 1948 theme tune for the BBC broadcast Sports Report )
  • Atlantic Charter . march
  • Empire Builders . march
  • Admirals All. Nautical march
  • The Nelson Touch (1940s)

For piano

  • Coquette
  • Italian suite
  • Sonatina in F
  • Song of Autumn
  • Song of Summer

For organ

  • Toccatina (1914)
  • Heroic Prelude (1928)

Incidental music

Film music

  • therein: Cornish Rhapsody for piano and orchestra
  • 1945: Something Left Behind (A Place of One's Own) - Director: Bernard Knowles
  • 1945: Three marriages (They Were Sisters) - Director: Arthur Crabtree
  • 1945: The Wicked Lady (fragment, supplemented [or replaced?] By music by Hans May)

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personal data
SURNAME Bath, Hubert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bath, Hubert Charles (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English composer and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Barnstaple , Devon
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 1945
Place of death Harefield (now the London Borough of Hillingdon )