Finzi gerald biography of barack

Mr Gerald Finzi - A Sensitive Composer
Mr Gerald Finzi, who died yesterday in a nursing home at Oxford at the age of 55 after a short illness, was a composer whose work, already highly esteemed by musicians, was beginning to impress its merit upon a wider public.

Quiet and unobtrusive in style, his music is characterized by high craftsmanship and an individuality which is none the less unmistakably his own for all its evidence of the influence of such two diverse minds as those of Vaughan Williams and Elgar.

Bach was also a formative influence and there can be no doubt that Finzi’s early association with that wayward, but remarkably sensitive teacher, R.O. Morris, taught him how eclecticism could be bent to his purpose. He was, himself, peculiarly sensitive to the music as well as the meaning of words and this proved to be his strength as a composer, for though he brought the same fine craftsmanship to bear on all his works, it is the vocal works which manifest that extra se