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51: 159: 267:", is a lush, romantic work for eight-part choir and organ, of dense harmonies. For most of the time, it sits in four parts, though the treble, alto, tenor, and bass parts all subdivide at various points. It is considered a classic of the English choral repertoire and is still regularly performed as an 317:
Also surviving are a number of short piano works and songs. There is also the one movement String Quartet in Bb major, composed in 1905 and premiered that year on 28 February by the Cathie String Quartet at the
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Gardiner's most important work, possibly, was his promotion of the music of contemporary British and colonial composers, particularly through a series of concerts he personally financed at
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in 1908), but many of his scores, including the symphonies, are lost and only a very limited amount of his music survives.
741: 661: 761: 704: 467: 255: 171: 392:: much of his lost music was probably destroyed by him. For the next 25 years he devoted himself to a pioneering 590: 198:, London. He began to play the piano at the age of 5 and to compose at 9. Between his conventional education at 511:
Purslow, F; Marrowbones, English Folk Songs from the Hammond and Gardiner Collections; London; 2007 pp xvi–xvii
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to enable him to continue living in it at the end of his life. In the early 1920s he also became a patron of
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The fame of this work has overshadowed his surviving orchestral works, which include
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His works included compositions in a variety of genres, including two
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Gardiner gave up composing in 1925 largely because he was intensely
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The Observer, Profile – Kennedy Scott. Sunday, November, 11, 1951.
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Scott, Cyril. 'The late Balfour Gardiner and our Student Days',
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London in 1912 to 1913. The composers represented included
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Henry Balfour Gardiner
Frederic H. Balfour

Kensington
Salisbury
New College, Oxford
Hoch Conservatory
Alan Gardiner

Henry John Gardiner
drapery
Orsett Terrace
Westbourne Grove
Paddington
Charterhouse School
New College, Oxford
Hoch Conservatory
Iwan Knorr
Lazzaro Uzielli
Clara Schumann
Frankfurt Group
George Gardiner
Winchester College
symphonies
Proms
Evening Hymn
compline
Te lucis ante terminum
anthem
Evensong

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