Sir Granville Bantock

(1868-1946)

"Cafe Terrace on the Place du Forum" (1888), oil on canvas, 81 x 65.5 cm, of the painter Vincent Van Gogh, contemporary of Bantock (Rijksmuseum Kroller-Mueller, Otterlo)

The musician Sir Granville Bantock, who wrote music for orchestra, chamber and vocal music, was born in Londra on the 7th August 1868, the same year of the composers Angeli, Bleichmann, Braga, Brandts Buys, Broome, Ellberg, Engel, Erlanger, Gallico, Gawronski, Giarda, Gilbert, Hrazdira, Jarno, Jebe, Joplin, Lorenz, MacCunn, Maurice, Merikanto, Monti, Mortelmans, Patterson, Schillings, Silver, Skilton, Tomás. Died in Londra on the 16th October 1946

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Music examples MIDI ed Mp3 of Late Romanticism

Sir Granville Bantock

OPERE

"Caedmar", libretto of F. Corder, has been represented in 1893

"The Pearl of Iran", libretto of G. Bantock, has been represented in 1894

"Eugene Aram" has been represented in (?)

"The Seal Woman", in 2 Acts on the libretto of Marjorie Kennedy-Fraser, was performed on the 27th of September 1924 in Birmingham

LIEDER

"Ozymandias", published in 1924, text of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

"Bridal song", text of Helen Maude Francesca Bantock (von Schweizer) (1868-?)

"Hymn to Aphrodite", text of Helen Maude Francesca Bantock (von Schweizer) (1868-?)

"Arethusa", published in 1927, text of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

"Muse of the golden throne", text of Helen Maude Francesca Bantock (von Schweizer) (1868-?)

"Music, when soft voices die", published in 1912, text of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

"To Morning" (O holy virgin! clad in purest white) n. 3, published in 1912, text of William Blake (1757-1827)

"To the Muses" n. 1, published in 1912, text of William Blake (1757-1827)

"In a Myrtle Shade" (Why should I be bound to thee) n. 1, published in 1909, text of William Blake (1757-1827)

"Hymn of Pan", published in 1922, text of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

"Love's Secret" (Never seek to tell thy love) n. 2, published in 1909, text of William Blake (1757-1827)

"To the Evening Star" (Thou fair-haired angel of the evening) n. 2, published in 1912, text of William Blake (1757-1827)

"One with eyes the fairest, from Cyclops of Euripides", published in 1909, text of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

"The wild flower's song" n. 2, published in 1909, text of William Blake (1757-1827)

"Pippa Passes" (The year's at the spring), published in 1922, text of Robert Browning (1812-1889)

"A widow bird" (A widow bird sat mourning for her love) n. 3, published in 1932, text of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

"In a dream, I spake", text of Helen Maude Francesca Bantock (von Schweizer) (1868-?)

"Dreams" (The flower that smiles to-day), published in 1938, text of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

"Peer of gods he seems", text of Helen Maude Francesca Bantock (von Schweizer) (1868-?)

"I loved thee once, Atthis, long ago", text of Helen Maude Francesca Bantock (von Schweizer) (1868-?)

"The Fly" (Little Fly, thy summer's play), published in 1912, text of William Blake (1757-1827)

"The world's wanderers" (Tell me, star whose wings of light), published in 1937, text of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

"The moon has set", text of Helen Maude Francesca Bantock (von Schweizer) (1868-?)

"Stand face to face, friend", text of Helen Maude Francesca Bantock (von Schweizer) (1868-?)

"The Tyger" (Tiger! Tiger! burning bright), published in 1908, text of William Blake (1757-1827)

"Wake the serpent not (fragment)", published in 1908, text of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

"Evening song", text of Helen Maude Francesca Bantock (von Schweizer) (1868-?)

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