Pianophilia

Thanks seconded, Malcolm! It's a pleasure to see compositions by Sir Frederick. He was Seymour Bernstein's teacher, whose father happened to share a 40 year long friendship with my dad..through which I was able to meet and correspond with Seymour. Small world indeed...

All Best,

Frank

Bate, Stanley
(b Plymouth, 12 Dec 1911; d London, 19 Oct 1959).
English composer and pianist. His musical talents were recognized early, and by 1931 he had composed two operas. Between 1932 and 1936 he studied at the RCM with Vaughan Williams, R.O. Morris, Gordon Jacob and Arthur Benjamin, one of his fellow students being Peggy Glanville-Hicks, whom he was later to marry. He won various prizes, went on to study with Boulanger in Paris and Hindemith in Berlin. Bate’s Piano Concertino, first performed at the Eastbourne Festival in 1937, brought his name before a wider audience, and he became closely associated with the London stage, writing music for several plays and working as musical director for the ballet company Les Trois Arts at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith. As well as composing prolifically, Bate also made his name as a pianist, and in the early 1940s he toured Australia as a lecturer and soloist, before spending a few years in the USA, where his music was well received. He returned to London in 1949. He became depressed at the lack of recognition his music received in the UK, and this led to his suicide.


Bibliography
Obituary, MT, c (1959), 680
M. Barlow and R. Barnett: ‘Stanley Bate: Forgotten International Composer’, British Music, xiii (1991), 16–36
Michael Barlow

Hello Scriabinoff,

Thanks for the post, this is probably not the most amazing piece of music you have posted, but I am becoming more and more amazed with the broad and interesting spectrum that your resources and endeavours to dig for material is producing.

Keep going - I am enjoying all your posts, bios and links.

thanks,

tobyjj

Anyone has scanned any music by Francis Edward Bache? He is obscure enough but has composed a lot of quality works in his 24-year-life.

promusician wrote:Anyone has scanned any music by Francis Edward Bache? He is obscure enough but has composed a lot of quality works in his 24-year-life.

IMSLP has a couple - http://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Bache,_Francis_Edward

Regards
Fred

fredbucket wrote:

promusician wrote:Anyone has scanned any music by Francis Edward Bache? He is obscure enough but has composed a lot of quality works in his 24-year-life.

IMSLP has a couple - http://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Bache,_Francis_Edward

Regards
Fred

ya, that's what I requested from Philip Sear. I just want to ask the members who have one or two scores by him because I planned to order some from BL.

The Souvenirs d'Italie Op.19 was recorded in the not too distant past. I was a little disappointed as it was not cut from the same cloth as the rather brilliant 1st PC.

I cannot help feeling it is going to cost you a lot of money to find something that you are going to want to learn.

Thal

I found a fair number of F.E.Bache here, can anyone make them into pdf? Many thanks.
http://www.biblioteche.regione.lombardi ... FORM_C=AND

The availability of scans from the Milan Conservatorio had been discussed many times in the past. No way to download those jpgs (not mentioning pdfs) without spending a lot of time grabbing each image.

For instance ..