Piano Solo -
Intermediate-Advanced
SKU: FP.FSC05
Composed by Cyril Scott.
Sheet Music and Books.
Three pieces for piano by
Cyril Scott, one of the
most influential
composers of the early
20th century. Classical.
Collection. Forsyths
Publications #FSC05.
Published by Forsyths
Publications (FP.FSC05).
ISBN
9790570504169.
Cyri
l Scott’s music is
currently the subject of
major revival, having
lain largely ignored for
much of the 20th Century.
Once described as 'the
father of modern British
music' by Eugene
Goossens, and admired by
Claude Debussy, Richard
Strauss, Igor Stravinsky
and his lifelong friend
Percy Grainger, he
composed four hundred
works including: four
Symphonies, three Operas,
two Piano Concertos, four
Oratorios, Concertos for
Violin, Cello, Oboe and
Harpsichord, several
Overtures, Tone Poems,
many Chamber works and
innumerable
songs.
There is a
story that when Bernard
Shaw commented to Elgar
on the (then) daring
harmonies of his Second
Symphony Elgar replied
'You mustn’t
forget, it was Cyril
Scott started all
that!'.
'a pioneer
of British piano music,
producing more piano
works in the period
1903-1914 than any other
British composer and any
other international one,
with the exception of
Scriabin... (He) was a
key figure before World
War I in helping Britain
to break away from
musical conservatism and
the prevailing Germanic
influences.' (Lisa Hardy,
The British Piano Sonata
1870-1945).
