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Humphrey Searle (26 August 1915 – 12 May 1982) was an English composer and writer on music. His music combines aspects of late Romanticism and modernist serialism, particularly reminiscent of his primary influences, Franz Liszt, Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern, who was briefly his teacher. [1] .
Humphrey Searle was a pioneer of twelve-tone music in Britain, whose distinctive work combines hyper-romantic rhetoric with a fastidious ear for instrumental colour. Born: 1915
Apr 30, 2015 · Humphrey Searle (1915-1982): Symphony No.1 op.23 (1952/1953).I. Lento - Allegro decisoII. Adagio [06:32]III. Quasi l'istesso tempo [13:22]IV. Allegro molto -...
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May 11, 2024 · Humphrey Searle (1915-1982) took a different path from contemporaries like Ralph Vaughan Williams, Arnold Bax, and William Walton in pursuing 12-tone composition as his model.
Humphrey Searle [b. Oxford (England), 1915 - d. London, 1982] was an English twelve-tone and serialist composer active from the Second World War onwards… a contemporary of Benjamin Britten and Bernard Stevens; younger than Edward Elgar, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Havergal Brian, Edmund Rubbra, William Walton and Michael Tippett; older than ...
Oct 29, 2021 · 6. Symphony No. 2, Op. 33: II. Lento. BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra - Topic.
One of the current projects in the British Library Music Department involves a sizeable amount of material relating to the British composer Humphrey Searle (1915-1982), the 35th anniversary of whose death falls this Friday (12 May).
