Gerald Finzi

Welcome to Gerald Finzi.org - the official Finzi Trust site

The deadline for the Finzi Scholarship Awards 2011 is 5 November 2010. 
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Gerald Finzi is one of the most admired British composers of the 20th Century. His music embraces a rich variety of moods, from elegiac lyricism, through spiritual reflection, to radiant joy.
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Read Finzi's seminal Crees Lectures. The Trust is extremely grateful to Finzi's biographer Diana McVeagh for editing the three lectures. You can now read them online. 
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The Finzi Trust is an organisation set up in 1969 to further the music, ideals and work of Gerald Finzi.
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The Finzi Friends was formed in 1982 to further interest in Gerald Finzi's life and work and bring together people with similar interest.
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The clock of the years: this beautifully produced anthology celebrating twenty-five years of the Finzi Friends Newsletter, compiled by Rolf Jordan, is the first book to be published by Chosen Press. Here you can browse through archive material relating to the worlds of Gerald and Joy Finzi. A truly illuminating achievement.
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Gerald Finzi: His Life & Music: read Diana McVeagh's study of Finzi's life and work - an intimate and scholarly portrait of the man and his music.
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Visit the Green Plaque at Finzi's birthplace - 93 Hamilton Terrace, St John's Wood, London. From here it's only a short walk for a tour of Lord's Cricket Ground or a bite to eat next to the beautiful canals of Little Venice.
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'Absalom's place' is Finzi's own eloquent summary of his humanistic and artistic beliefs.
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