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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.
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 was a pioneer of twelve-tone music in Britain, whose distinctive work combines hyper-romantic rhetoric with a fastidious ear for instrumental colour. Back to biography.
TitleYearDescriptionDurationPrelude, Nocturne and Chase1979four horns8Contemplations1975mezzo soprano and chamber orchestra20Five1974guitar19Kubla Khan1974tenor solo, SATB chorus and orchestra12Humphrey 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 ...
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).
