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Chronology
| AGE |
YEAR |
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| 23 |
1918 |
Attached to Transport Section, R.I.C.
Bedfordshire Regt., at Boyle, Co.Roscommon, Ireland. First acquaintance
with Ireland; visits Co.Mayo and Western Connaught.
Composes At The Horse
Fair for piano; begins sketches for prelude In
The Mountain Country.
Attends School of Aeronautics. |
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1919 |
January
Released from Army service. Returns to teach at Uppingham as
Assistant Music Master. Rejoins school orchestra to play with
2nd Violins.
Completes Three Piano
Pieces.
Summer Meets Arnold Bax in London
for the first time. |
| 25 |
1920
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February
21 Rejoins RCM; studies composition with John Ireland.
Composes Theme and Variations
for Piano, Piano Trio
and song cycle Ludlow Town.
Finishes work on In
The Mountain Country.
Tours France and Spain with the author Robert Gibbings. |
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1921 |
Composes String
Quartet in A minor, ‘On
A May Morning’ and Toccata.
April 2 Leaves RCM without completing
the course - receives a III / I in Piano and a IV / III in composition.
Easter Wins the Gold Medal for
competition in the London-Lands End motor cycle race.
September Composes piano piece
Stalham River at Bacton.
October Active in Norfolk and
Suffolk collecting folk songs at Sutton, Hickling, Potter Heigham
and East Stoneham.
November 24 Conducts first performance
of In The Mountain
Country at RCM Patron’s Fund Concert. |
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1922
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January
Collects folk songs from Harry Cox at Potter Heigham.
Begins work on Violin
Sonata, and Fancies
for piano.
June 22 Conducts First
Rhapsody at RCM Patron’s Fund Concert. |
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1923 |
January
15 promotes first series of chamber music concerts at
Wigmore Hall. First performance of Three
Piano Pieces by Harriet Cohen, also Violin
Sonata and String
Quartet in A minor. Meets Philip Heseltine (Peter Warlock)
for the first time.
April 19th Conducts First
Rhapsody at the Bournemouth Festival. First production of
Delius’s opera ‘Hassan’. Meets Jelka Delius.
October 1 Heseltine accompanies
M. on folk song collecting trip to Sutton (Norfolk).
Winter Revises score of In
The Mountain Country. |
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1924 |
April 10
Returns to Bournemouth to conduct First
Rhapsody at the 2nd Festival organised by Dan Godfrey.
Summer Further folk song collecting
in Norfolk, Suffolk at Catfield, Hickling, Potter Heigham and
Sutton. Augustus John with M. on at least one expedition to
Winterton, also Heseltine.
Completion and publication of Six
Norfolk Folk Songs.
Norwich Festival commissions Second
Rhapsody.
September 9 Conducts First
Rhapsody at the Proms.
November 1 First performance
of Second Rhapsody
in St. Andrews Hall, Norwich. King George V attends; M. shares
the conducting with Vaughan Williams.
November 27 Hamilton Harty conducts
the first Halle performance of In
The Mountain Country. |
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Orchestral Works
Symphony
Violin Concerto
Sinfonietta
Cello Concerto
Serenade in G
Rhapsodies
First
Rhapsody
Second Rhapsody
Second Rhapsody (revision)
Third (Piano) Rhapsody
Other Works
In The
Mountain Country
Lonely Waters
Wythorne's Shadow
Farrago Suite
Overture to a Masque
Nocturne
Piano Music
Three
Pieces
Theme and Variations
On a May Morning
Toccata
Stalham River
Three Fancies
Two Legends
Summer Holiday
Bank Holiday
Irish Love Song
The White Mountain
Two Pieces
Piano
Trio
Third (Piano) Rhapsody
Sonatas
Violin
Sonata
Sonata for Two Violins
Cello Sonata
Oboe Music
Fantasy
Quartet
Chamber Music
String
Quartet No 1
String Quartet No 2
String Trio
Piano Trio
Fantasy Quartet
Cello Prelude
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