Frank Bridge
Frank Bridge ( born February 26, 1879 in Brighton, † January 10, 1941 in Eastbourne ) was an English composer, violist and conductor and is today despite a not very extensive work as one of the most important composers in Britain.
Career
Frank Bridge began his career as a sample conductor with various orchestras. After Henry Wood put him becoming more common for the management of various promenade concerts, his fame grew. Bridge was also a music teacher, his most important pupil was Benjamin Britten. This composed at the beginning of his career, a set of variations for strings on a Theme of Bridge. This work attracted attention internationally, which could also benefit Bridge.
The works
Bridge wrote mainly chamber music and some large-scale orchestral works, initially in conventional style, but over time his works have always more modern structures. While his early work The Sea ( tone poem ) offers the magnificent view of the sea in all sorts of moods and facets of tragic to tucked away, waiting for his later work Enter Spring ( tone poem ) with clear echoes of Arnold Schoenberg's twelve-tone music on.
The orchestral works
- The Sea
- Dance Rhapsody
- Buzzer
- Isabella
- A Prayer ( Thomas a Kempis ) for choir and orchestra
- Rebus Overture
- Enter Spring
- Willow grows aslant There is a brook a
- Oration, Concerto for cello and orchestra
Chamber Music
- Sonata in D minor, Op 125 for Cello and Piano
- Berceuse in B flat major for violin or cello and piano
- Serenade for Cello and Piano
- Romance for Violin and Piano
- Élégie for Cello 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 Cello and Piano
- 4 Short Pieces ( Meditation in C major, Spring Song in G Major, Lullaby in D Major, Country Dance in B flat major ) for violin or cello and piano
- Composer
- Composer of classical music ( 20th century)
- Classic violist
- Conductor
- Briton
- Born in 1879
- Died in 1941
- Man