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The first modern analysis of Rubbra’s music.
Concentrates on Rubbra’s symphonic works with a succinct
biographical sketch.
Leo Black is the author of the acclaimed Franz Schubert:
Music & Belief.
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A new account of Rubbra’s
symphonies, setting them fully in the context of his life
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The music of Edmund Rubbra
(1901-1986) has been unjustly neglected - arguably because its
wide-ranging nature makes it difficult to categorise. He is perhaps best
known as a symphonist; his eleven symphonies covered a period of musical
and political upheaval (1934 – 1980), the first four reflecting the
uneasy later 1930s, with a second global conflict no longer avoidable.
The immediately-post-war ones document new emotional depths and his
conversion, while the final symphonies show a man still in search of
peace and reconciliation, overlooked by the world but certain he was on
the right path.
Leo Black, a pupil of Rubbra at Oxford in the 1950s, here presents a
sympathetic full-scale study of these works (the first for some fifteen
years). A succinct biographical sketch throws light on legends about the
BBC and Rubbra; there are full programme notes on each symphony, with
shorter accounts of important non-symphonic works, in particular a
‘triptych’ of concertos from the 1950s and major liturgical pieces
composed around the time of the Second Vatican Council, after Rubbra’s
conversion to Catholicism. He also deals with the vexed question of
Rubbra’s mysticism.
The Author
LEO BLACK is a former BBC chief producer for music and author of the
highly-acclaimed Franz Schubert: Music and Belief [2003].
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1 b/w illustrations
256 pages
Size: 23.4 x 15.6 cm
ISBN: 9781843833550
Binding: Hardback
Publication date: 19/Jan/08
Price: £30.00 / $60.00
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The Sixth Symphony (PDF 313KB)
The symphonies of Edmund Rubbra are
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