Howard Ferguson

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Born: 21 October 1908, Belfast (Northern Ireland)
Died: 1 November 1999, Cambridge (England)

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clarinet & piano

I performed his 4 pieces for clarinet and piano; nice music.

[by “solare” on 2007-08-01 03:13:14]
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[details ←] Five Irish Folk Tunes Piano, Viola, Cello,
[details ←] Arabeske, Op. 18 and Blumenstucke, Op. 19 Piano,
[details ←] Nachtstucke, Op. 23 Piano,
[details ←] Sixty Pieces for Aspiring Players, Book II Piano, Organ, Harpsichord,
[details ←] Drei Fantasiestucke, Op. 111 Piano,
[details ←] Sixty Pieces for Aspiring Players, Book I Piano, Organ, Harpsichord,
[details ←] Prelude and Fugue in E minor Piano,
[details ←] Eleven Sonatas Piano, Organ, Harpsichord,
[details ←] Four Piano Pieces Piano,
[details ←] Six Piano Pieces Piano,
[details ←] Four Ballads Piano,
[details ←] Eight Piano Pieces Piano,
[details ←] Drei Romanzen, Op. 28 Piano,
[details ←] Phantasiestucke, Op. 12 Piano,
[details ←] Faschingsschwank aus Wien, Op. 26 Piano,
[details ←] Die Davidsbundler, Op. 6 Piano,
[details ←] Papillons, Op. 2 Piano,
[details ←] Fifty Pieces for Beginners, Op.38 Piano,

Music

His major works include:

  • Piano concerto (1951)
  • "Amore Langueo" for tenor, chorus, and orchestra (1956)
  • "The Dream of the Rood" for soprano, chorus, and orchestra (1959)

    • Biography

    Howard Ferguson for most of the 20th century enjoyed a formidable reputation as both a pianist and musicologist, studying piano with Harold Samuel and conducting with Sir Malcolm Sargent at London’s Royal College of Music.

    As a composer, he was first brought to public attention in 1932 by a performance in the Wigmore Hall of his first Violin Sonata. He went on to consolidate his compositional fortunes with a series of commissions from the Three Choirs Festival including, the Dream of the Rood for Chorus and Orchestra, a work of great inspiration and beauty, sadly neglected today. He withdrew from serious composition in the 1940s to concentrate on scholarship and musicology, the fruits of which are a considerable number of Anthologies of Early Keyboard Music, produced at a time when most of this music had lain dormant for centuries. He taught at the Royal Academy of Music from 1948–1963.

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