Finzi Timeline
1931 - 1945
- 1932
- New Year Music, Op.7, performed under Sir Dan Godfrey in Bournemouth
Earth and Air and Rain, Op.15, for baritone and piano (1928-32) - 1933
- First complete performance of A Young Man's Exhortation, Op.14, in London.
Marries the artist Joyce Black, with Ralph and Adeline Vaughan Williams as witnesses, and settles at Aldbourne in Wiltshire - 1934
- Begins to work on behalf of Ivor Gurney, cataloguing his manuscripts
- 1935
- First works published by Boosey & Co and Hawkes & Son, including Earth and Air and Rain, Op.15
- 1936
- Interlude, Op.21, for oboe and strings (1932-36)
- 1937
- Seven Poems of Robert Bridges, Op.17
- 1938
- Finzi continues his work in support of Ivor Gurney. He is a driving force behind a Music and Letters symposium, and behind the eventual publication of five volumes of songs and two collections of poems by Gurney
- Prelude and Fugue, Op.24, for string trio
Finzi, drawn by
Joy Finzi, 1940 - 1939
- Moves to newly-built Church Farm at Ashmansworth, near Newbury. Outbreak of war causes the cancellation of the premiere of Dies natalis at the Three Choirs Festival, a major performance which could have established his career as a composer
- Dies natalis, Op.8, for tenor or soprano and strings
- 1940
- Founds and conducts the Newbury String Players, a small, mainly amateur body with which he gives enterprising concerts in a wide area around his home until his death. Many young musicians and composers, including Julian Bream and Kenneth Leighton, are offered the chance of performance, and Finzi revives and edits music by William Boyce, Richard Capel Bond, John Garth, Richard Mudge, John Stanley, and Charles Wesley
- Dies natalis, Op.8, performed in London, 26 January
- 1941
- Works for Ministry of War Transport until 1945. His home is opened to German and Czech refugees
Finzi, 1940's
- 1942
- Let Us Garlands Bring, Op.18, five settings of songs by Shakespeare for baritone & piano (1929-42), later orchestrated for baritone & strings
- 1943
- Five Bagatelles, Op.23, for clarinet and piano (1938-43)
- 1944
- Introduction to Farewell to Arms, Op.9, for voice and small orchestra (1944)
- 1945
- Farewell to Arms performed by the BBC Northern Orchestra under Charles Groves