FRANK BRIDGE (1879-1941)
COMPOSER, COURAGEOUS REVOLUTIONARY AND PACIFIST
CHRONOLOGY - OUTLINE1879
26 February - born at Brighton
1899
Entered RCM
1902 (23)
Berceuse for violin and orchestra
1903 (24)
Graduated from RCM
1904 (25)
Novelleten for string quartet
Violin Sonata
1905 (26)
First prize Cobbett Competition - Phantasy String Quartet in F sharp minor
Piano Quintet
Norse Legend for violin and piano
1906 (27)
Three Idylls for string quartet
String Quartet in E minor - honourable mention in Bologna competition
Deputised on Joachim Quartet
Nine Miniatures for cello and piano
1907 (28)
Isabella - tone poem
Piano Trio No. 1 in C minor - Phantasie
1908 (29)
First prize Cobbett Competition - Phantasy Trio
Dance Rhapsody
Suite for strings
Two Hunchbacks - incidental music
1909 (30)
Dance Poem
1910 (31)
Fantasy Piano Quartet commissioned
Conducted Marie Brema season at Savoy
The Sea
1914 (35)
Summer
1915 (36)
String Sextet
Lament
String Quartet No 2 is prize work in Cobbett Competition
Two Jefferies Poems
1916 (37)
A Prayer for chorus and orchestra
1917 (38)
Cello Sonata
1919 (40)
Began work on Christmas Rose - finished in 1929
1921 (42)
Threads - Incidental Music for stage play
1922 (43)
Sir Roger de Coverley
Meets Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge
1923 (44)
Visits USA at invitation of Mrs Coolidge
Accepts Mrs Coolidge's patronage
1924 (45)
Successful performance of The Sea at Norwich festival
1925 (46)
Piano Sonata
Builds family home at Friston Field in Sussex
1926 (47)
String Quartet No 3
1927 (48)
Enter Spring premiered to acclaim at Norwich festival
1928 (49)
Rhapsody for two violin and viola
There is a Willow grows aslant a Brook
1929 (50)
Piano Trio No 2
Christmas Opera - Christmas Rose complete - after work spanning ten years
1930 (51)
Oration (Concerto Elegiaco) for cello and orchestra
1931 (52)
Phantasm - Rhapsody for piano and orchestra
1937 (58)
String Quartet No 4
1940 (60)
Rebus
Divertimenti for wind quartet
1941 (61)
Dies on 10 January
CONTACTS
Most of Bridge's music can be obtained in score and parts via Stainer and Bell. Thames Music and Faber Music.
Further details can be obtained from the Frank Bridge Trust at
14 Barlby Rd LONDON W10 6AR Phone 0181 969 3579
AUTHOR'S NOTE
I welcome your feedback, additions and corrections so please contact me at rob.barnett@ukgateway.net
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 and Len Mullenger were of great value and considerably enhanced the end result. Thank you.
Rob Barnett
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