Gerald Finzi

Bibliography

R/ denotes a reprinted or revised edition and is the one to which page references apply

W R Anderson: New Works by Modern British Composers: Third Series: a description (London, 1928)

anon: ‘MTA composer of the year: Gerald Finzi’, Music Teacher and Piano Student xxxiv (1955): 597

anon: ‘Mr Gerald Finzi: a sensitive composer’, obituary, The Times, 28 September 1956: 13, repr in Finzi Trust Friends Newsletter xii[recte xiii]/1 (1995): [4]

K Avery: ‘Finzi, Gerald’, in Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed E Blom (London, 1954): III, 135-7

S Banfield: ‘The Immortality Odes of Finzi and Somervell’, Musical Times cxvi (1975): 527-31

S Banfield: Sensibility and English Song: critical studies of the early twentieth century (2 vols, Cambridge, 1985)

S Banfield: sleeve note to recording of music by Finzi (EMI 7 49913 2, 1989)

S Banfield: ‘Finzi and Wordsworth’, Finzi Trust Friends Newsletter x/2 (1992): [2-10]

S Banfield: Gerald Finzi - an English composer, Faber & Faber, ISBN 0 571 19598 9

G Beechey: ‘The church music of Gerald Finzi’, Musical Times cxviii (1977): 667-70

A Bliss [and A Scott]: ‘Gerald Finzi--an appreciation’, Tempo 42 (1956-7): 5-6

C M Boyd: ‘Gerald Finzi and the solo song’, Tempo 33 (1954): 15-18

A Burn, ed: Summer Weekend of English Music: Oxford 20-22 July 1984, programme book (Liverpool, 1984)

A Burn: sleeve note to ‘A recital of English songs’, Hyperion recording A66103, 1984)

A Burn, ed: Summer Weekend of English Music: 16-19 July 1987 Radley College Abingdon, programme book (Liverpool, 1987)

A Burn: ‘Quiet composure’, Country Life clxxxi (1987): 118-19

A Burn: sleeve note to recording of music by Moeran and Finzi (EMI 7 49912 2, 1988)

A Burn and D McVeagh, eds: Gerald Finzi: twenty-fifth anniversary celebration: Ellesmere College Weekend 17-19 July 1981, programme book (Liverpool, 1981)

A Burn and H Rees, eds: Summer Festival of British Music 1990: Radley College, Abingdon 11-15 July 1990, programme book (Liverpool, 1990)

M R Carlisle: Gerald Finzi: A Performance Analysis of ‘A Young Man’s Exhortation’ and ‘Till Earth Outwears’, Two Works for High Voice and Piano to Poems by Thomas Hardy (DMA dissertation, University of Texas, Austin, 1991)

E Cline: ‘The composer’s use of words: the language and music of Gerald Finzi’, British Music xiv (1992): 8-24

H Cobbe: ‘The correspondence of Gerald Finzi and Ralph Vaughan Williams’, Finzi Trust Friends Newsletter x/1 (1992): [9-14]

H Cole: ‘Vision of innocent England: celebrating Gerald Finzi’, Country Life clxx (1981): 575

J Cook: Towards a Performing Version of the Finzi Piano Concerto (BA Hons dissertation, Oxford University, 1994)

I Cooper: The Orchestral and Chamber Works of Gerald Finzi (MLitt dissertation, University of Bristol, 1985)

M Crum: ‘Working papers of twentieth-century British composers’, Bodleian Library Record viii (1968): 101-3

J E Crutchfield: A conductor’s Analysis of Gerald Finzi’s ‘Intimations of Immortality’; ‘Lo, the Full, Final Sacrifice’; and ‘Magnificat’ (DMA dissertation, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1994)

Davie, C Thorpe: ‘Introduction’, Catalogue of the Finzi Collection (St Andrews University Library, 1982): iii-iv

L A Denning: A Discussion and Analysis of Songs for the Tenor Voice Composed by Gerald Finzi With Texts by Thomas Hardy (DMA dissertation, University of Miami, 1995)

P Dingley: The Finzi Book Room at the University of Reading: a catalogue (Reading, 1981)

I E: ‘Finzi’, The Jewish Encyclopedia: 389-90

S Eaton: letter to Joy Finzi, Finzi Trust Friends Newsletter iv/1 (1986): [13-14]

R Fawkes: ‘Just an ordinary man’, Classical Music, 12 August 1995: 25

H Ferguson: ‘Gerald Finzi (1901-1956)’, Music and Letters xxxviii (1957): 130-35

H Ferguson: ‘Gerald Finzi’, Canon xi (1957): 111-12

H Ferguson: ‘Gerald Finzi (1901-1956)’, Hallé 100 (1957): 8-11

H Ferguson: sleeve note to recording of songs by Finzi (Lyrita SRCS 38, 1968)

H Ferguson: sleeve note to recording of songs by Finzi (Lyrita SRCS 51, 1971)

H Ferguson: ‘People, events and influences’, in Ridout 1989: 7-15

Letters of FInzi & Ferguson, ed Ferguson & Hurd: Boydell Press, PO Box 9, Woodbridge IP12 3DF UK; Boydell & Brewer Inc USA; ISBN 0 85118 823 4

C Finzi: sleeve note to recording of music by Finzi (World Record Club, SCM 50, 1964)

C Finzi, ed: Joy Finzi 1907-1991: tributes from her friends (privately printed, 1992)

G Finzi: review of Maud Karpeles: Folk-Songs from Newfoundland, Journal of the Folk Dance and Song Society i (1935): 157

G Finzi: Absalom’s Place: catalogue of works (typescript, July 1941, R/June 1951), in J Finzi n.d.

G Finzi: ‘Critic on the air’, BBC 3rd Programme talk (typescript, 1 April 1948)

G Finzi: ‘Obituary: R O Morris’, The RCM Magazine xlv/2 (1949): 54-6

G Finzi: ‘Hubert Parry: a revaluation’, Making Music 10 (1949): 4-8

G Finzi: ‘Introduction’, John Stanley: Concerto No 3 in G (London, 1949)

G Finzi: ‘Environment and music’, Mercury 7 (1950): 25-7

G Finzi: ‘Words and music’, guest page, Oxford Guardian, 5 October 1950: 13

G Finzi: ‘John Stanley (1713[sic]-1786)’, Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association lxxvii (1950-1): 63-75

G Finzi: ‘Music and the amateur’, book review, Making Music 17 (1951): 13-14

G Finzi: ‘Vaughan Williams--the roots and the tree’, Philharmonic Post vi/6 (1952): 64-5, 71

G Finzi: ‘John Stanley’, Tempo 27 (1953): 21-7

G Finzi: ‘Leith Hill Festival’ (typescript, 14 April 1953)

G Finzi: Preface, Charles Wesley: Easy String Quartets (London, 1953)

G Finzi: ‘Herbert Howells’, Musical Times xcv (1954): 180-83

G Finzi: ‘[Marion Scott] as guardian of genius (Ivor Gurney’s work)’, Society of Women Musicians conference (typescript, 25 June 1954); printed in Marion Scott commemorative programme: 8-11

G Finzi: Preface, Richard Mudge: Concerto no 4 in D minor for string orchestra and continuo (London, 1954)

G Finzi: Preface, John Garth: Concerto no 2 in B flat major for violoncello solo, string orchestra, and continuo (ad lib) (London, 1954)

G Finzi: ‘The composer’s use of words’: [three] Crees Lectures, RCM (typescript, 1955)

G Finzi: ‘Music for Love’s Labours Lost’, introduction to orchestral suite (Boosey & Hawkes hire score, London, ?1955)

G Finzi: Preface, Charles Wesley: Concerto no 4 in C major [for keyboard] (London, 1956)

G Finzi: Preface, Capel Bond: Concerto no 6 in Bb for bassoon, string orchestra and continuo (London, 1957)

G Finzi: Preface and critical apparatus, William Boyce: Overtures (Musica Britannica xiii, London, 1957): xiii-xxvii, 163-4

J A Finzi, Layman, Clark 1975-6. Unpublished records drawing on research undertaken on behalf of the firm by Miss D C Stockhausen (employee), David Carrington (Jewish Chronicle), Claudio Vita Finzi (University College, London), Geoffrey Langley (Avon Country Reference Librarian) and R N Carvalho, and on information in Ievreiskaia Enziklopedia xv (St Petersburg, 1913)

J Finzi: personal journal (1936-56)

J Finzi: ‘For Diana McVeagh’, reminiscences of Gerald Finzi (typsecript, 1950s?)

J Finzi: ‘Gerald Finzi--composer--1901-1956’, introduction to the Finzi Book Room, Reading University Library (typescript, 1973)

J Finzi: ‘Introduction’ to S Banfield: The Hardy Songs by Gerald Finzi (typescript, 1975)

J Finzi: Finzi Trust Friends talk and notes (typescript, Christmas 1982)

J Finzi: In That Place: the portrait drawings of Joy Finzi (Marlborough, 1987)

J Finzi: Absalom’s Place scrapbook (n.d.) (see G Finzi 1941, R/1951)

L Foreman: ‘Reputations . . . bought or made?’, Musical Times cxxi (1980): 27

M Foster: ‘The Hussey legacy’, Finzi Trust Friends Newsletter xi/2 (1993): [11-13]

A Francis: sleeve note to recording of music by Finzi and Stanford (Hyperion A66001, 1980)

B Frankel: ‘His music caught the meaning of words’, Music and Musicians v (December 1956): 15, 35

J H French: The Choral Odes of Gerald Finzi (England) (DMA dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 1995)

S R Germany, jr: The Solo Vocal Collections of Gerald R Finzi Suitable for Performance by the High Male Voice (DMA dissertation, University of North Texas, 1993)

B N S Gooch and D Thatcher: Musical Settings of Late Victorian and Modern British Literature: a catalogue (New York and London, 1976)

B N S Gooch and D Thatcher: A Shakespeare Music Catalogue (5 vols, Oxford, 1991)

H P Greene, M M Scott, J C Squire, W de la Mare, E Blunden, R Vaughan Williams and H Howells: ‘Ivor Gurney: the man . . . the poet . . . the musician’, Music and Letters xix (1938): 1-17

C Grogan: ‘Gerald Finzi (1901-56): an annotated bibliography’ (typescript, 1992)

Gurney Archive, Gloucester Library

G Hansler: Stylistic Trends and Characteristics in the Choral Music of Five Twentieth-Century English Composers: Benjamin Britten, Gerald Finzi, Constant Lambert, Michael Tippett, and William Walton (PhD dissertation, NY State University, 1957)

H Havergal: ‘Finzi, Gerald Raphael (1901-1956), Dictionary of National Biography 1951-1960 (London, 1971): 357-8

J Highfield: Gerald Finzi: the man and the music (GRSM dissertation, RAM, 1978)

T Hold: ‘“Checkless griff”, or Thomas Hardy and the songwriters’, Musical Times cxxxi (1990): 309-10

P Holman: sleeve note to John Stanley: Six Concertos in Seven Parts, op 2 (Hyperion recording A66338, 1989): 4-5

P Holman: sleeve note to Capel Bond: Six Concertos in Seven Parts (Hyperion recording A66467, 1992): 4-6

[F Howes]: ‘A poet’s musician: the works of Gerald Finzi’, The Times, 5 October 1956: 3

R Hull: ‘“What now?”’, British Music of Our Time, ed A L Bacharach (Harmondsworth and New York, 1946): 219-34

D R Hulme: A Study of the English Art-Song Between the World Wars (MA dissertation, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1975)

M Hurd: The Ordeal of Ivor Gurney (Oxford, 1978)

M Hurd: ‘Building a library: the music of Gerald Finzi’, radio script (BBC Radio 3, 10 October 1981)

A Hutchings: ‘Music in Britain: 1918-1960’, in The New Oxford History of Music, Vol X (The Modern Age: 1890-1960), ed M Cooper (London, 1974): 539

R Jordan, ed: The clock of the years, Chosen Press, ISBN 9780955637308

D Keston: Two Gentlemen from Wessex: the relationship of Thomas Hardy’s poetry to Gerald Finzi’s music (MSc dissertation, Bemidji State University, Minnesota, 1981)

K Leach: Finzi’s Early Development As a Songwriter: a study of the song sketches, Bodleian Library MSS Mus.b.33-34 (Hons dissertation, Royal Holloway College, 1991)

S Liley: Gerald Finzi 1901-1956, Musical Poet: a critical study of his songs for solo voice and piano (MMus dissertation, University of Liverpool, 1988)

N G Long: ‘The songs of Gerald Finzi’, Tempo 17 (1946): 7-10

J M McCoy: The Choral Music of Gerald Finzi: a study of textual/musical relationships (DMA dissertation, University of Texas, Austin, 1982)

J E McCray: The British Magnificat in the Twentieth Century (PhD dissertation, University of Iowa, 1968)

D McVeagh: Gerald Finzi: His Life and Music, Boydell & Brewer Ltd, ISBN 1843831708

D McVeagh: sleeve note to recording of Finzi: Intimations of Immortality (Lyrita SRCS 75, 1975)

D McVeagh: sleeve note to recording of music by Finzi (Lyrita SRCS 92, 1977)

D McVeagh: sleeve note to recording of music by Finzi (Lyrita SRCS 84, 1978)

D McVeagh: sleeve note to recording of music by Finzi (Argo ZRG 896, 1979)

D McVeagh: sleeve note to recording of music by Finzi (Lyrita SRCS 93, 1979)

D McVeagh: sleeve note to recording of music by Finzi (Argo ZRG 909, 1979)

D McVeagh: sleeve note to recording of Finzi: Cello Concerto (Lyrita SRCS 112, 1979)

D McVeagh: ‘Finzi, Gerald (Raphael)’, in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed S Sadie (London and New York, 1980): VI, 594-6

D McVeagh: ‘Foreword’, Gerald Finzi, catalogue of works (Boosey and Hawkes, London, 1980): 3

D McVeagh: ‘Composers of our time: Gerald Finzi’, Records and Recording xxiii/4 (1980): 30-33

D McVeagh: ‘Songs by Finzi and his friends’, sleeve note to Hyperion recording A66015 (1981)

D McVeagh: ‘A Finzi discography’, Tempo 136 (1981): 19-22

D McVeagh: sleeve note to recording of songs by Finzi (Hyperion A66161/2, 1985)

D McVeagh: sleeve note to recording of music by Finzi and Leighton (Chandos CHAN 8471, 1986)

D McVeagh: sleeve note to recording of instrumental music by Finzi (Nimbus NI5101, 1987)

D Mitchell: ‘The music of Gerald Finzi’, concert review, Musical Times xcv (1954): 490-1

E Newman: ‘Words and music’, Sunday Times, 15, 22, 29 July 1945: 2, 2, 2

D W Niederbrach: The Songs of Gerald Finzi: an analytical and critical examination (DMA dissertation, University of Iowa, 1977)

H Ottaway: ‘The Three Choirs at Gloucester’, Musical Opinion lxxx (November 1956): 79-83

B B Parker: ‘Textual-musical relationships in selected songs of Gerald Finzi’, NATS Bulletin xxx (1974): 10-19

K Parker: ‘Finzi: Requiem da camera [etc]’, review, Finzi Trust Friends Newsletter x/1 (1992): [21]

E A Pierce: A Videocassette Analysis and Performance of Song Cycles by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gerald Finzi and Ivor Gurney With Short Commentary on Each (DMA dissertation, Eastman School of Music, 1975)

J M Popkin: The Finzi Bowl (Oxford, 1986)

C Popplewell: ‘Church Farm, Ashmansworth’, Finzi Trust Friends Newsletter xii[recte xiii]/1 (1995): [1-3]

A Powers: ‘Harmonious mansions: two composers’ houses of the 1930s’, Country Life clxxviii (1985): 559-63

M J Prictor: ‘The poems of Thomas Hardy as song’, Context 6 (1993-4): 34-42

M J Prictor: ‘His Own Sweet Way’: a study of the critical reception of the works of Gerald Finzi (1901-1956) (MMus dissertation, University of Melbourne, 1996)

H Redlich: ‘Finzi, Gerald’, in Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, ed F Blume (Kassel and Basel, 1955): IV, 246-7

D Renouf: Thomas Hardy and the English Musical Renaissance (PhD dissertation, Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham, 1986)

A Ridout, ed: The Music of Howard Ferguson (London, 1989)

B[ernard] W G R[obinson]: obituary tribute to Gerald Finzi, The Times, 10 October 1956: 13, repr in Finzi Trust Friends Newsletter xii[recte xiii]/1 (1995): [5]

K E Robinson: A Critical Study of Word/Music Correspondences in the Choral Works of Gerald Finzi (PhD dissertation, Northwestern University, 1994)

E [Duncan-]Rubbra: ‘The younger English composers: VI--Gerald Finzi’, Monthly Musical Record lix (1929): 193-4

E Rubbra, G Spencer, J Russell and A W[alker]: ‘Mr Gerald Finzi: wide sympathies’, The Times, 12 October 1956: 13, repr in Finzi Trust Friends Newsletter xii[recte xiii]/1 (1995): [5-6]

J Russell: ‘Gerald Finzi--an English composer’, Tempo 33 (1954): 9-15

J Russell: ‘Gerald Finzi’, Musical Times xcvii (1956): 630-1

J Russell: ‘Gerald Finzi (1901-1956)’, Making Music 33 (1957): 7-9

J Schaarwächter: Die britische Sinfonie 1914-1945 (Köln, 1995)

D T Schubert: The Relationship of Text and Music in Gerald Finzi’s Song Set: ‘I Said to Love’ (DMA dissertation, University of Oklahoma, 1993)

M M Scott: ‘Chamber music of the month’, Musical Times lxxvii (1936): 455-7

M M Scott: ‘Preface’, Ivor Gurney: A First [and Second] Volume of Ten Songs (London, 1938)

M M Scott: ‘Postscript . July 1950’, Ivor Gurney: A Third Volume of Ten Songs (London, 1952)

A Shuttleworth: ‘Memories of Gerald Finzi, his music, home, family and the Newbury String Players 1945-56’, Finzi Trust Friends Newsletter xii[recte xiii]/1 (1995): [9-10]

C Stunt: Thomas Hardy and Gerald Finzi: an improbable partnership (BA Special Hons dissertation, University of Bristol, 1996)

P Thomas: ‘Requiem da camera’, Finzi Trust Friends Newsletter viii/2 (1990): [14-15]

J R Tobin: ‘Living British composers, 6: Gerald Finzi’, Pictorial Education (March 1954): 14

M Trend: The Music Makers: heirs and rebels of the English musical renaissance: Edward Elgar to Benjamin Britten (London, 1985)

D Turner: Gerald Finzi’s Songs: the context of the unpublished and fragmentary works (BA Hons dissertation, Oxford University, 1987)

D Urrows: ‘Gerald Finzi and his sacred choral music’, The American Organist (July 1990): 82

R Vaughan Williams, A Bliss and G H[utton]: ‘Mr Gerald Finzi: a many-sided man’, obituary, The Times, 3 October 1956: 13, repr in Finzi Trust Friends Newsletter xii[recte xiii]/1 (1995): [6-7]

D E Vogel: A Recital of Selected Songs for the Low Male Voice Composed by Gerald Finzi Using the Poetry of Thomas Hardy (EdD dissertation, University of Columbia, 1967)

M Wade: Before and After Summer, radio play (BBC Radio 3, 20 August 1995)

A Walker: ‘Gerald Finzi (1901-1956)’, Tempo 52 (1959): 6-10

C J Weber: ‘Thomas Hardy music: with a bibliography’, Music and Letters xxi (1940): 172-8

J A W[estrup]: ‘Finzi, Gerald’, in Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians, supplementary volume, ed H C Colles (London, 1940): 219

E L Willey: ‘British clarinet concertos’, The Clarinet xii (1985): 15-16

A Glyn Williams: ‘Stanley, Smith and “Teraminta”’, Music and Letters lx (1979): 312-15