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13-691: The Frankfurt Group , also called the Frankfort Group , the Frankfurt Gang or the Frankfurt Five , was a group of English-speaking composers and friends who studied composition under Iwan Knorr at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt am Main in the late 1890s. The group included H. Balfour Gardiner , Norman O'Neill , Cyril Scott and Roger Quilter , who were all English, and Percy Grainger , who

26-533: A much larger property at 44 Morningside Park. In 1910 he took a post teaching at Moray House in Edinburgh and in 1915 became music teacher at Daniel Stewart's College, moving to George Heriot's School in 1919. He then moved to Watson's Ladies College on Queen Street, Edinburgh . In 1912 he is noted in arranging an evening of traditional music, aided by John Bartholomew, advocate, of the "Misses Tolmie" including "Miss Tolmie's Waulking Song". His most famous work,

39-468: A German composer is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . William Beatton Moonie William Beatton Moonie (1883–1961) was a British composer. He gives his name to the Moonie Collection , a collection of music held by Glasgow University . He was born somewhat prematurely at the station master's house at Stobo railway station on 29 May 1883 while his parents were taking

52-709: A brief holiday from their usual home in Edinburgh . His father James Anderson Moonie (d.1923) was a music teacher living at 33 Oxford Street, a flat in the Newington district of Edinburgh. His mother, Clementina Greenaway, had been a secretary. James was a member of the Hope Park United Presbyterian Church and founded the Hope Park Musical Association in 1886. He also ran several choirs, most famously "Mr Moonie's Choir" founded in 1896. William

65-437: A dislike of Beethoven , and a resistance to the musical nationalism of the self-styled English Musical Renaissance of Hubert Parry and Charles Villiers Stanford , and of the later English Pastoral School of Ralph Vaughan Williams and Gustav Holst . All of them had a predilection for the music of Frederick Delius , although there remains some doubt as to when the individual members first became aware of his music, which

78-627: A focus on chords rather than musical architecture or "the truly English qualities of grandeur, hopefulness and glory". Most rebellious were Grainger and Scott, whose music often crossed the boundaries of accepted musical convention. Scott's work for a time gave up the use of bars and time signatures , while employing dissonant harmonies and highly individual orchestration . The music of Quilter, O'Neill and (sometimes) Balfour Gardiner, shows an influence derived from Delius. Writing in 1977 Stephen Banfield argued that "today [the Frankfurt Group]

91-511: Is difficult to regard as anything other than a damp squib in the history of English music". Of them all, he said, only Roger Quilter is remembered not as a name but for his music - although only his songs have made an impact. Iwan Knorr A native of Gniew , Knorr was taken to southern Russia at the age of four, where he was surrounded by Russian folk music. His mother taught him piano. The family settled in Leipzig in 1868, where Knorr attended

104-688: The Leipzig Conservatory , studying with Ignaz Moscheles , Ernst Friedrich Richter and Carl Reinecke . In 1874, he became a teacher and in 1878 director of music theory instruction at the Imperial Kharkiv Conservatory , in what is now Ukraine . In 1883, he settled in Frankfurt , where he joined the faculty of the Hoch Conservatory . In 1908, he became director of the school. As a teacher he exerted great influence. Among his pupils were Bernhard Sekles , Ernest Bloch , Vladimir Sokalskyi , Ernst Toch and Hans Pfitzner , as well as

117-730: The English-speaking composers such as William Beatton Moonie and friends that become known as the Frankfurt Group : Balfour Gardiner , Percy Grainger , Norman O'Neill , Roger Quilter and Cyril Scott . His compositions include three operas, a symphony, a piano quartet and several sets of variations and suites, as well as pedagogical works of counterpoint and fugue, but he was not prolific. His 1888 piece for cello and piano, Variationen über ein Thema von K. Klimsch , has been recorded by Adrian Bradbury and Andrew West. This article about

130-625: The opera "The Weird of Colbar", premiered at the Theatre Royal in Glasgow in March 1937, a romantic story concerning the Jacobite Alan Colbar. The title appears an allusion to Scott's "Weir of Hermiston" and the lyrics are in large part derived from Scott. In 1945 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Edinburgh University . He died in Edinburgh on 8 December 1961 and is buried with his father in

143-613: Was born in Australia and established himself as a composer in England between 1901 and 1914 before moving to the United States. They remained close friends from their student days onwards. Knorr, though German-born, was strongly influenced by Russian music and was a believer in fostering the individuality of his pupils. The Frankfurt group were united more by their friendship and their non-conformity than by any common aim, though they did share

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156-474: Was certainly later than when they were a group in the 1890s. The group was distinguished by its rebelliousness, and by studying abroad they stood apart from the conservative wider English musical establishment. Grainger described the group as Pre-Raphaelite composers, arguing that they were musically distinguished from other British composers by "an excessive emotionality ... particularly a tragic or sentimental or wistful or pathetic emotionality", reached through

169-741: Was educated at Daniel Stewart's College (where his father became Music Master in 1887) then studied History of Music at Edinburgh University . There he studied under Frederick Niecks and graduated BMus in 1902 also winning the Bucher Scholarship , which enabled him to do postgraduate studies at the University of Frankfurt under Iwan Knorr , Lazzaro Uzielli and Willi Rehberg (father of Walter Rehberg ). On his return to Britain in 1908 he had further tuition from Donald Tovey and through him befriended Erik Chisholm . He went back to living with his family in Edinburgh, who at this point had moved to

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