British  and Irish Composers

SOME BRITISH CONDUCTOR-COMPOSERS
by Philip L. Scowcroft

John Addison(s)

William Alwyn

Denis ApIvor see also ApIvor Society

Richard Arnell

Sir Malcolm Arnold Society

Algernon Ashton

Sir Ivor Atkins

Judith Bailey

Edgar Bainton Society

Sir Granville Bantock Society

David Barlow

Bernard Barrell

Stanley Bate

Colin Bayliss

Sir Arnold Bax

Sally Beamish

Arthur Benjamin

Sir Lennox Berkeley see also David Wright

Michael Berkeley - a brief synopsis

Judith Bingham

William Blezard

Sir Arthur Bliss    see also
G Schirmer - publisher

Carey Blyton

Havergal Brian Society

Frank Bridge

Benjamin Britten

James Brown

John Buckley

Alan Bush

Arthur Butterworth

Doreen Carwithen

Rhona Clarke

Frederick Cliffe

Eric Coates

Gerard Francis COBB

Arnold Cooke

Greville Cooke

Robert Crawford

Harold Craxton

David Curry

Gordon Dale

Christian Darnton

Cedric Thorpe Davie

Edgar Deale

David Dorward

Andrew Downes

Thomas Dunhill

Stewart Hylton Edwards

Rosalind Ellicott

Gerald Finzi

Graham Fitkin

Aloys Fleischmann

Eric Fogg

Benjamin Frankel Society

Peter Racine Fricker

Hans Gál

John Gardner

Roberto Gerhard

Armstrong Gibbs

Ruth Gipps

Gareth Glyn

Berthold Goldschmidt

Sir Eugene Goossens

Eric Graebner

Inglis Gundry

Ivor Gurney

Patrick Hadley

Richard Hall

Iain Hamilton

Julius Harrison

Anthony Hedges

Trevor Hold

Alfred Hollins

Victor Hely-Hutchinson

Joseph Holbrooke

Gustav Holst

William Hurlstone

John Ireland Society

Gordon Jacob

Daniel Jones

Kenneth V. Jones

Wilfred Josephs Society

John Joubert

Minna Keal

Iain Kendell

John Larchet

Kenneth Leighton

Jeffrey Lewis

George Lloyd - The symphonies

David Lloyd-Howells

William Lloyd Webber

Elizabeth Lutyens

Alexander Mackenzie

Elizabeth Maconchy

Carlo Martelli

William Mathias

Frederick May

Billy Mayerl

Ernest Moeran

Thea Musgrave

Seán Ó'Riada

Buxton Orr

Sir Andrzej Panufnik

Paul Patterson

Ian Parrott

Anthony Payne

Montague Phillips Scowcroft France

Priaulx Rainier

Karl Rankl (I have adopted him as British)

Alan Rawsthorne Society

Cyril Rootham

Francis Routh

Edmund Rubbra   now with  major review of discography

Philip Sainton

Leonard Salzedo

Cyril Scott

Marion Scott

Humphrey Searle  now with complete memoirs

Matyas Seiber

Martin Shaw

Reginald Smith Brindle

Patric Standford

James Stevens

Richard Stoker

Felix Swinstead

Phyllis Tate

Janet Owen Thomas

Sir Michael Tippett

Joan Trimble

Harold Truscott

Ralph Vaughan Williams

John Veale

Gerard Victory

William Wallace

William Walton

Judith Weir

Samuel Wesley

Percy Whitlock

Grace Williams

John Williamson

James Wilson

Thomas Wilson

Hugh Wood

Philip Wood

John Wooldridge

David Wright    

David Wynne

British Academy of Composers and Songwriters
British Composer Project
Irish composers at the Contemporary Music Centre Ireland
Early English Musick
Guild for the promotion of Welsh music

Thomas Adès
Julian Anderson
Paul Ayres
William Baines
Paul Barker
Michael W. Balfe
David Bedford
George Benjamin
Tim Benjamin
Lennox Berkeley
Howard Blake
Harrison Birtwistle
Arthur Bliss
Havergal Brian  (Hyperion page)
Frank Bridge
Benjamin Britten
Alan Bullard
Alan Bush
George Butterworth
Charles Camilleri
Andrew Carter
Erik Chisholm
Rebecca Clarke Society
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Gaze Cooper
Frank Corcoran
Guirne Creith
Peter Maxwell Davies
Delius Society
Bill Thompson's Delius site and links
Frederick Delius
Jacksonville University, Florida. Delius collection and restored home
James Douglas
Andrew Downes
Arthur Duff
Arthur Dulay
Sir Edward Elgar     Very comprehensive
David Ellis
Michael Finnissy
Gerald Finzi  
John Foulds
Armstrong Gibbs
Anthony Gilbert
David Golightly
Ivor Gurney
George Handel
Hamilton Harty and Harty
Jonathan Harvey
Alistair Hinton
Alun Hoddinott
Maud Hodson
Holst Birthplace Museum
Holst Kenric Taylor's site
Herbert Howells
Elaine Hugh-Jones
Robert Hugill
John Joubert
Oliver Knussen  also Faber page
Kenneth Leighton also Lengnick
George Lloyd
Jeremy Marchant
Colin Matthews
David Matthews
Cecilia McDowall
John McLeod
Nicholas Maw
John McCabe
Wiilfred Mellers
Anthony Milner
Ernest Moeran comprehensive database
Dominic Muldowney
Havelock Nelson
Patrick Nunn
Albert Alan Owen
Sir Andrzej Panufnik
Paul Patterson
John Pickard (1) (2) (3)
John Pitts
Maud Powell
Daniel Purcell Mark Humphreys site
Henry Purcell - Tore Steenslid's site
Roger Quilter(1877 - 1953)
John Raynor
Franz Reizenstein
Lionel Sainsbury
Ignatius Sancho
Sinan Savaskan
Gerard Schurmann
Cyril Scott
Robert Simpson also Lengnick
Kaikhosru Sorabji
Bernard Stevens also Lengnick
Ronald Stevenson and Society
Robert Still
Frederick Stocken
Sir Arthur Sullivan The Gilbert and Sullivan Archive also M Saremba
John Tavener
Sir Michael Tippett
Ian Venables
Vic Voss
F. L. Dunkin Wedd
Ralph Vaughan Williams
      see also Faber site
Sir William Walton Trust
Sir William Walton Garry D Cannon
Peter Warlock
John West
Percy Whitlock
Adrian Williams
Stanley Wilson
John Woolrich

Contemporary Music Centre of Ireland

Music Now: British Composers
possible new address site seems to be under re-construction

including: Nicola Ellis Andrews, Laurie Scott Baker, Brendan Beales, Alan Bullard, Chris Burn, Gillian Carcas, Cornelius Cardew, Michael Chant, Paul Cheneour, Richard Churches, Robert Coleridge, Jo Cutler, Brian Dennis, Peter Devenport, Jonathan Eato, Richard Fairhurst, Sam Fendrich, Dylan Fowler, Robert Godman, Barry Guy, Michael Henry, Christopher Hobbs, Brian Inglis, Stephen Kenyon, Alistair King, Maria Lamburn, Silvina Milstein, Phil Minton, Paul Nicholas, Nicholas O'Neill, John Palmer, Evan Parker, Lynne Plowman, David Prior, Martin Read, Peter Reynolds, Jane Serter, Hugh Shrapnel, Howard Skempton, Dave Smith, Duncan Stafford, Andrew Sterling, Gavin Stevens, Gillian Stevens, Benjamin Wallfisch, John Webb, Veryan Weston, Paul Whitty, Robert Wilsmore and John White

Scottish Music Centre

including:    Marina Adamia     Sally Beamish    Lyell Cresswell    Kenneth Dempster    James Dillon    Patrick Doyle     Tommy Fowler     Iain Hamilton    Nicky Hind    David Horne    Kenneth Leighton     Malcolm Lindsay    James MacMillan    Sir Peter Maxwell Davies    Eduardo Miranda    Thea Musgrave    Magnus Robb    J.Simon van der Walt   William Sweeney    Judith Weir    Thomas Wilson

The British Music Society
British Music Society: British Composer Dictionary
The British Music Page

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Benjamin Britten

Britten-Pears Library
Benjamin Britten  Cyrus Behroozi and Tom Niday's page at Caltech University
Colarado Britten Society

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Handel (Brad Leissa with excellent further Handel links)
Handel (Alexandre Hohmann)
Handel (BMG discography)

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To think it was once said the Britain was "Das Land ohne Musik"
But who said that? This has taken a lot of tracking down and I am grateful to Reg Williamson as none of the reference books were any help. The origin seems to be the title of a book by a German journalist just before the first war, anti-British in sentiments and generally slagging off the English for a lackof "kultur" His name was O. Schmitz, we think either Oscar or Otto. more

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