Name: Elegy (In Memoriam Rupert Brooke) (arr. John Ivor Holland) by Frederick Septimus Kelly Concert Band Digital Sheet Music
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Elegy (In Memoriam Rupert Brooke) (arr. John Ivor Holland)
by Frederick Septimus Kelly Concert Band - Digital Sheet Music

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Title Elegy (In Memoriam Rupert Brooke) (arr. John Ivor Holland)

Artist Frederick Septimus Kelly

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Arranger John Ivor Holland

Composer Frederick Septimus Kelly

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 67

Arrangement Concert Band

Publisher John Ivor Holland

Level 5

Product ID 1530676

Genre World Classical Multicultural 20th Century Romantic Period

Performance Group Concert Band

Product Description

Born in Sydney in 1881, the seventh child of a wealthy family, Kelly was educated at Sydney Grammar School before being sent to England where he attended Eton College and Oxford University. At Eton his musical talents were nurtured under the tutelage of Dr Charles Harford Lloyd. He also developed a passion for rowing, eventually winning a gold medal for England in the 1908 London Olympics. After graduating from Oxford, Kelly began five years of musical study in piano and composition at the Hoch Conservatorium in Frankfurt, Germany. He made his professional debut as a pianist in Sydney in 1911. His London debut followed in 1912. His career was interrupted by the outbreak of the First World War.

Elegy for String Orchestra "In Memoriam Rupert Brooke" was written during his war service in the final year of his life. It is an accomplished and moving work in the English pastoral style of the time, its lush modal string-writing sounding not unlike his famous English near-contemporary Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958). In the Australian context it stands out as a mature and beautiful musical statement by an Australian composer in relation to actual personal experiences of the tragedy of the First World War. As such it's unique in the Australian classical canon, and also part of that wider generational tragedy of what might have been if such an accomplished composer had lived on to create music into his old age. Arranged from the original string orchestra for symphonic wind ensemble and harp.

This product was created by a member of ArrangeMe, Hal Leonard's global self-publishing community of independent composers, arrangers, and songwriters. ArrangeMe allows for the publication of unique arrangements of both popular titles and original compositions from a wide variety of voices and backgrounds.