Bassoon,Clarinet,Double Bass,Flute,Horn,Oboe - Level 4 - Digital Download
SKU: A0.554074
Composed by Henry Balfour Gardiner. Arranged by Ray Thompson. Contemporary. 48 pages. RayThompsonMusic #6597257. Published by RayThompsonMusic (A0.554074).
Composed in 1911.
Probably intended as an interlude for a projected one-act opera based on Thomas Hardy's 'The Three Strangers'.
Premiered at the Queen's Hall at a Promenade Concert and so successful that it was repeated a month later during the same Proms season.
(It became a favourite at the Proms, chalking up 35 performances between 1911 and 1951)
Henry Balfour Gardiner (7 November 1877 – 28 June 1950) was a British musician, composer, and teacher.
He was born at Kensington (London), began to play at the age of 5 and to compose at 9.Between his conventional education at Charterhouse School and New College, Oxford, where he obtained only a pass degree, Gardiner was a piano student at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt, where he was taught by Iwan Knorr and Lazzaro Uzielli, who had been a pupil of Clara Schumann. He belonged to the Frankfurt Group, a circle of composers who studied at the Hoch Conservatory in the late 1890s
Gardiner's most important work, possibly, was his promotion of the music of contemporary British and colonial composers, particularly through a series of concerts he personally financed at Queen's Hall London in 1912 to 1913. The composers represented included Arnold Bax, Frederic Austin, Gustav Holst, Percy Grainger, Roger Quilter, Cyril Scott and Norman O'Neill. (The last four had also studied with him at Frankfurt.)
Arranged for symphonic wind dectet and bass
