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FRANK BRIDGE (1879-1941)

COMPOSER, COURAGEOUS REVOLUTIONARY AND PACIFIST  by Rob Barnett

A Len Mullenger commission This is a long article of 9000 words

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These documents were commissioned by the kind receipt of a donation to further the work of this web-site which is otherwise financially unsupported.
I am grateful to the Frank Bridge Trust for the Photographs. Len Mullenger


 


 

see also

Frank Bridge – Phantasie in F minor Centenary and Confusion by John France

Frank Bridge by Trevor Bray

FOREWORD

ORIGINS

SETTING OUT - FIRST SUCCESSES

EARLY SUCCESSES

THE GREAT WAR

THE NINETEEN TWENTIES

AMERICAN ADVENTURES AND SECURITY

FRISTON

BRITTEN

ORATION

ELEGIES AND PHANTASMS

TWILIGHT AND DARKNESS

BACKWARD …… AND FORWARD

WHERE TO START

PRINCIPAL WORKS

RECORDINGS: SELECT LIST

A BRIDGE CHRONOLOGY - OUTLINE



AUTHOR'S NOTE

I welcome your feedback, additions and corrections so please contact me at rob.barnett1@btinternet.com

With thanks to those who commented on the first draft and each in their own way improved the present version. The comments of Richard Adams, Jane Erb and Len Mullenger were of great value and considerably enhanced the end result. Thank you.


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