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Chronology
| AGE |
YEAR |
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1894 |
December
31 born Spring Grove Vicarage, Heston, Middlesex. |
| 4 |
1898 |
Family moves to Peckham. |
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1901 |
Family moves to Southsea.
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1905 |
Family moves to Salhouse Vicarage, Norfolk.
M. attends Suffield Park Prep. School, Cromer. Begins violin
lessons, teaches himself piano chords based on hymns heard
in church
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| 13 |
1908 |
July Leaves Suffield
Park.
September Enters Lorne House,
Uppingham School.
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1909 |
January joins
school orchestra, playing 2nd Violin.
June wins Speech Day prize
for Violin and Piano. Plays for house Under 16 Cricket Team
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1910 |
Summer
member of House Under 16 Cricket Team again. |
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1911 |
April becomes
leader of 2nd Violins in school orchestra.
June wins Speech Day prize
for Piano.
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| 17 |
1912 |
forms own string quartet. First attempts at
composition - 3 string quartets;
sonata for cello and piano
in 4 movements.
April 17 Attends Balfour Gardiner
Concert in Queen’s Hall, London. Hears Vaughan Williams’s
2nd & 3rd Norfolk Rhapsodies.
July Final school concert.
Plays in a piano trio, and as piano soloist.
Sept 26 Enters Royal College
of Music, London. Studies Piano and Composition with Stanford;
viola as a minor study.
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| 18 |
1913 |
March 8
Attends second Balfour Gardiner Concert - hears Delius’s Piano
Concerto, and Bax’s ‘In The Faery Hills’. Begins to collect
first folk songs in Norfolk, after hearing ‘The Dark-
eyed Sailor’ sung at Bacton.
May First extant composition
Dance written at Bacton.
Nov 3 Attends first London performance
of Elgar’s ‘Falstaff’.
December Writes second piano
piece, Fields at Harvest at Bacton.
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1914 |
Sept 30
Interrupts studies at RCM for enlistment at Brittania Barracks,
Norwich, as a dispatch rider in the 6th (Cyclist) Battalion,
Royal Norfolk Regiment.
November Promoted to Lance-corporal. |
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1915 |
June
Commissioned as an officer with rank of 2nd Lieutenant.
July Collects folk songs at Winterton.
Father builds Cliff House at Bacton. |
| 21 |
1916 |
On active service in France.
mid-Summer composes 4
Songs from ‘A Shropshire Lad’.
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1917 |
Attached to West Yorkshire Regiment.
Posted to Western Front.
May 3 Badly wounded by shrapnel
at Bullecourt, France. Mentioned in dispatches.
July Promoted to Lieutenant.
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