The song cycle Ludlow and Teme by Ivor Gurney setting A.E. Housman, published in 1919
The Carnegie Collection of British Music was founded in 1917 by the Carnegie Trust to encourage the publication of large scale British musical works. Composers were asked to submit their manuscripts to an anonymous panel. On the panel at various times were Hugh Allen, Granville Bantock, Arnold Bax, Dan Godfrey, Henry Hadow and Donald Tovey.[1][2] Up to six works per year were chosen for an award – publication at the expense of the Trust, in conjunction with music publishers Stainer & Bell. Unfortunately the war delayed things for the earliest prizewinners. The first to be published (in 1918) was the Piano Quartet in A minor by Herbert Howells. (It caught the attention of the young William Walton, who successfully submitted his own Piano Quartet to the panel six years later).[3] By the end of 1920 some 13 works were available. 30 were out by the end of 1922,[4] and when the scheme finally closed in 1928 some 60 substantial works that might not otherwise have seen the light of day had been issued under the Carnegie Collection of British Music imprint.[5]
Not all the works published were new and unknown. Some, such as Vaughan Williams' London Symphony and Rutland Boughton's opera The Immortal Hour were already long established pieces.[6] Stanford's Fifth Symphony, composed almost 30 years before, hadn't kept its place in the repertoire, but was published in recognition of the influential composer and teacher at the very end of his life.[1] Ernest Farrar, who died in 1918, was posthumously awarded publications in 1921 and 1925. However, many of the lesser known works and their composers have been all but forgotten today. A collection of most (over 50) of the scores is held at the Maughan Library (part of King's College London) on the Strand.[7]
In 1995 the BBC broadcast three programmes on the Carnegie Collection, providing the first modern recordings of some of the most neglected works. These included Edgar Bainton's Before Sunrise,[8] Norman Hay's String Quartet in A,[9] Ina Boyle's The Magic Harp, R O Morris' Quartet in A, Lawrence Collingwood's Poeme symphonique, Edward Mitchell's Fantasy Overture and John McEwen's Solway Symphony.[10]
^ abDibble, Jeremy. Charles Villiers Stanford: Man and Musician (2002) p 262
^Craggs, Stewart R. 'Felix White, a centenary note' in Musical Times, April 1984, p 207-8
^Lloyd, Stephen. William Walton: Muse of Fire (2002) p 25
^'Carnegie Trust' in Musical Times June 1922, p 420-1
^Erpelding, Matthew William. The danger of the disappearance of things: William Henry Harris' The Hound of Heaven, University of Iowa dissertation (2014), Chapter 2
^Letter from Adeline Vaughan Williams to the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust, 9 April 1917
^King's College, London. Carnegie Collection of British Music
^Radio Times Issue 3742, 5 October 1995, p 134<
^Radio Times Issue 3743, 12 October 1995, p 122
^Radio Times Issue 3744, 19 October 1995, p 128
and 25 Related for: Carnegie Collection of British Music information
The CarnegieCollectionofBritishMusic was founded in 1917 by the Carnegie Trust to encourage the publication of large scale British musical works. Composers...
industrialist and philanthropist. Carnegie led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century and became one of the richest Americans in...
King's College, London: The CarnegieCollectionofBritishMusic on loan to The Maughan Library. Kingston upon Thames 1903, Carnegie also funded the separate...
written to his own libretto, which was published as part of the CarnegieCollectionofBritishMusic and was staged at the Old Vic in 1921, and The Tempest...
International King's College, London. CarnegieCollectionofBritishMusic Lloyd, Stephen. Sir Dan Godfrey - Champion ofBritish Composers (1995) BBC Proms performance...
philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, it is one of the most prestigious venues in the world for both classical music and popular music. Carnegie Hall has its own...
publication of contemporary British musical compositions as the CarnegieCollectionofBritishMusic. After World War II, the Trust expanded its social welfare...
Carnegie library is a library built with money donated by Scottish-American businessman and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. A total of 2,509 Carnegie...
Proms, Carnegie Hall, and the Newport Jazz Festival. The album Six, on which Jenkins first played with Soft Machine, won the Melody Maker British Jazz Album...
orchestra (1927) - won Carnegie Trust awards and were published as part of the CarnegieCollectionofBritishMusic. (There's an arrangement of Snow Picture for...
traditional string quartets, the second (of 1918) published in 1922 as part of the CarnegieCollectionofBritishMusic, and a Phantasy Quintet for string quartet...
and the St. Dominic Mass were both published as part of the CarnegieCollectionofBritishMusic in 1925 and 1926 respectively, and both were frequently...
a British writer of fiction for both children and adults. Lively has won both the Booker Prize (Moon Tiger, 1987) and the Carnegie Medal for British children's...
the war. Two chamber works won the Carnegie Trust award and were published in the CarnegieCollectionofBritishMusic series, The Nymph's Complaint (1921)...
12. She has lived in Vienna, Austria, since 2018. She made her debut at Carnegie Hall in 2019 in a concert dedicated to her own composition. Alma Elizabeth...
"King of Swing". From 1936 until the mid-1940s, Goodman led one of the most popular swing big bands in the United States. His concert at Carnegie Hall...
Information Page Carnegie Libraries in Canada History of The Carnegie Building New Brunswick Public Libraries Saint John Free Public Library City of Saint John...
folk-influenced 1970s soft rock style ofmusic. In May 2017, a live album of Fogelberg's performance at Carnegie Hall, championed by his wife, sourced...
nominee in the World Music category for her third album, Live at Carnegie Hall. Having released three albums of Indian classical music, Shankar took several...
Global Information