Sir Arnold Edward Trevor BaxKCVO (8 November 1883 – 3 October 1953) was an English composer, poet, and author. His prolific output includes songs, choral music, chamber pieces, and solo piano works, but he is best known for his orchestral music. In addition to a series of symphonic poems, he wrote seven symphonies and was for a time widely regarded as the leading British symphonist.
Bax was born in the London suburb of Streatham to a prosperous family. He was encouraged by his parents to pursue a career in music, and his private income enabled him to follow his own path as a composer without regard for fashion or orthodoxy. Consequently, he came to be regarded in musical circles as an important but isolated figure. While still a student at the Royal Academy of Music Bax became fascinated with Ireland and Celtic culture, which became a strong influence on his early development. In the years before the First World War he lived in Ireland and became a member of Dublin literary circles, writing fiction and verse under the pseudonym Dermot O'Byrne. Later, he developed an affinity with Nordic culture, which for a time superseded his Celtic influences in the years after the First World War.
Between 1910 and 1920 Bax wrote a large amount of music, including the symphonic poem Tintagel, his best-known work. During this period he formed a lifelong association with the pianist Harriet Cohen – at first an affair, then a friendship, and always a close professional relationship. In the 1920s he began the series of seven symphonies which form the heart of his orchestral output. In 1942 Bax was appointed Master of the King's Music, but composed little in that capacity. In his last years he found his music regarded as old-fashioned, and after his death it was generally neglected. From the 1960s onwards, mainly through a growing number of commercial recordings, his music was gradually rediscovered, although little of it is regularly heard in the concert hall.
Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax KCVO (8 November 1883 – 3 October 1953) was an English composer, poet, and author. His prolific output includes songs, choral...
Ireland, Béla Bartók, Ernest Bloch and E. J. Moeran, and particularly Sir ArnoldBax (Cohen's lover), who wrote most of his piano pieces for her. This includes...
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This is a list of musical compositions by English composer Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, KCVO (8 November 1883 – 3 October 1953). Symphony in F (1907,...
Although many had assumed that the master of the queen's music, Sir ArnoldBax, would be the director of music for the coronation, it was decided instead...
Goldoni). The composer ArnoldBax was his brother, and set some of his words to music. The youngest son of Alfred Ridley Bax (1844–1918) and his wife...
Secret Life of ArnoldBax is a 1992 British TV movie directed by Ken Russell, who also stars in the title role as composer ArnoldBax. It was one of eight...
nonconformist. Bax's elder brother, barrister Alfred Ridley Bax, was father of the composer and writer ArnoldBax and the playwright and essayist Clifford Bax. In...
The academy's first building was in Tenterden Street, Hanover Square. ArnoldBax recalled it as an architectural rabbit warren. "The three eighteenth-century...
symphonic poem by Havergal Brian, 1910 In Memoriam, an orchestral piece by ArnoldBax, 1916 In memoriam (Moore), a symphonic poem by Douglas Moore, 1943 In...
Franz Joseph Aumann – String Quintet "Divertimento" in C major (c.1760) ArnoldBax – Quintet (1933) Frank Bridge – Quintet in E minor (H15, 1901) Ludwig...
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Granville Bantock Sonata in G minor (1924) Rami Bar-Niv Improvisation ArnoldBax Rhapsodic Ballad (1939) Sally Beamish Gala Water for solo cello (1988...
in Ken Russell's Lady Chatterley’s Lover and in The Secret Life of Sir ArnoldBax. She appeared as Vera Rowley in the BBC series The Hour in 2011, and was...
to John Field), for piano, Op. 33 (1959) William Basinski: Nocturnes ArnoldBax: Nocturnes, for soprano and orchestra (1911) Jackson Berkey: 24 Nocturnes...
No. 5 Daniel Auber: opera Le Maçon Alan Silvestri: The Mummy Returns ArnoldBax: Symphony No. 3 The Beatles: "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" makes prominent...
lighthouses. British composer Sir ArnoldBax made many extended visits there between 1904 and the early 1930s. Apparently, Bax composed much of his music and...
composer ArnoldBax and his brother, the author Clifford Bax. A discussion about astrology piqued Holst's interest in the subject. Clifford Bax later commented...
Ernest John Moeran, composer, resided at Eynsford from 1925 to 1928; ArnoldBax, William Walton and Constant Lambert visited them here. Percy Whitlock...
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