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Cecil Forsyth was an English composer and musicologist. He was born in Greenwich on November 30, 1870, and he died in New York (to which he moved in 1914) on December 7, 1941. He studied at Edinburgh University and at the Royal College of Music (with Charles Villiers Stanford
Charles Villiers Stanford

Sir Charles Villiers Stanford was an Irish composer, resident in England for much of his life....
 and Hubert Parry
Hubert Parry

Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, 1st Baronet was an English composer, best known for the choral song And did those feet in ancient time, the coronation anthem I was glad and the hymn tune Repton, which sets the words Dear Lord and Father of Mankind....
), and played viola in various London Orchestras. His compositions include the Viola Concerto in G minor (which premiered at the Proms in 1903 with Emile Ferir as soloist), the operas Westward Ho! and Cinderella, and the "choral ballad" Tinker, Tailor.






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Cecil Forsyth was an English composer and musicologist. He was born in Greenwich on November 30, 1870, and he died in New York (to which he moved in 1914) on December 7, 1941. He studied at Edinburgh University and at the Royal College of Music (with Charles Villiers Stanford
Charles Villiers Stanford

Sir Charles Villiers Stanford was an Irish composer, resident in England for much of his life....
 and Hubert Parry
Hubert Parry

Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, 1st Baronet was an English composer, best known for the choral song And did those feet in ancient time, the coronation anthem I was glad and the hymn tune Repton, which sets the words Dear Lord and Father of Mankind....
), and played viola in various London Orchestras. His compositions include the Viola Concerto in G minor (which premiered at the Proms in 1903 with Emile Ferir as soloist), the operas Westward Ho! and Cinderella, and the "choral ballad" Tinker, Tailor. His books about music include Music and Nationalism: A Study of English Opera (1911), Choral Orchestration (1920), A History of Music (1916--with Stanford), and A Digest of Music History (1923).

Forsyth is arguably best known for his Orchestration, originally published in 1914 and revised in 1935. Dover published a reprint of this revision in 1983 with a new foreword by composer William Bolcom
William Bolcom

William Elden Bolcom is an United States composer and piano. He has received the Pulitzer Prize, the National Medal of Arts, three Grammy Awards, and the Detroit Music Award....
, who lauds especially its insight into instrumental culture and its wit. Conductor Adrian Boult
Adrian Boult

Sir Adrian Cedric Boult Order of the Companions of Honour was an English Conducting....
 recounts in Adrian Boult on Music how Forsyth advised Ralph Vaughan Williams
Ralph Vaughan Williams

Ralph Vaughan Williams Order of Merit was an England composer of symphony, chamber music, opera, choral music, and film Film score. He was also a collector of England folk music and folk song; this also influenced his editorial approach to the English Hymnal, which began in 1904, many folk song arrangements being set as hymn tunes,...
 about the orchestration of the latter's A London Symphony.

Bibliography

  • Grove Dictionary of Music, "Cecil Forsyth".
  • The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music, "Cecil Forsyth".
  • Bynog, David M. “Cecil Forsyth: The Forgotten Composer?” Journal of the American Viola Society 24, no. 1 (Spring 2008): 13-19.
  • Bynog, David M. “The Vocal Music of Cecil Forsyth.” British Music 30 (2008): 6-15.


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