Elegy (Viola & Piano)
Howells, Herbert
Arranger: John Mortimer
Elegy (Viola & Piano)
Howells, Herbert
Arranger: John Mortimer
Instrumentation: Viola, Piano
Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes MP Ltd.
Catalogue No: M060130298
ISMN: 9790060130298
Shop Product Code: 275708Q
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Composed in 1917 for viola, string quartet & string orchestra, and first performed that year at the Mons Memorial Concert at London’s Royal Albert Hall. The work is inscribed to the memory of Francis Purcell Warren, a fellow-student of the composer at the Royal College of Music in the years of the First World War. He was a Viola Scholar and composer, and also one of the circle of young musicians that included Ivor Gurney, Eugene Goossens, Arthur Benjamin, Arthur Bliss and Howells himself – all fellow-students at one time. Purcell Warren was killed in the 1914–1918 War, and this Elegy was composed soon after his death.