10 favourite British Composers

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

, thus coming off as a pretentious prick.

as per usual 

[Jo498]

If I have to look it up or don't understand it, it is utterly pretentious, of course.

I have never heard Haiastan on German news (frankly, I never heard or saw the word before) but there is a strange tendency to try some names in local pronunciation (or use local names) whereas others are still used in a germanized (or sometimes internationalized) way. E.g. when I was a kid in the 1980s, everyone called the capital of China "Peking", now it is usually Beijing on TV or radio news. But it would still appear ridiculous to pronounce Paris in the French way or say "Roma", "Venezia" or "Bucuresti" (instead of Rom, Venedig, Bukarest). Not sure why this changed with Beijing and some other places.

[Florestan]

I have never heard Haiastan on German news (frankly, I never heard or saw the word before)

Actually, it´s Hayastan and nobody, except Armenians and pretentious pricks, uses it. 

E.g. when I was a kid in the 1980s, everyone called the capital of China "Peking", now it is usually Beijing on TV or radio news.

Same here. 

But it would still appear ridiculous to pronounce Paris in the French way or say "Roma", "Venezia" or "Bucuresti" (instead of Rom, Venedig, Bukarest).

Same here with pronouncing London, Bayern or Warszawa instead of Londra, Bavaria or Varşovia. 

[Christo]

Actually, it´s Hayastan and nobody, except Armenians and pretentious pricks, uses it. 

It's Hayastan in the English transliteration - but of course I use Dutch transliterations as my shelves happen to listen to that language (knew this one was coming). :-)

[Jo498]

So you aren't using the Armenian Alphabet? If pretentious prick anyway, go for it!

[Christo]

So you aren't using the Armenian Alphabet? If pretentious prick anyway, go for it!

No pretensions here. But yes, I did my best to learn the Armenian and Georgian alphabets while there. Just as I happen to be surrounded, at the moment (holiday in the Galilee) by both the Arab and Hebrew alphabet. Again: very tempting. 

[Florestan]

No pretensions here. But yes, I did my best to learn the Armenian and Georgian alphabets while there.

Have you also learned some Armenian or Georgian?

[Christo]

Have you also learned some Armenian or Georgian?

Alas. Did you? Especially Georgian culture and religion should arouse your lively interest, if only because of its distant relationship with its Romanian counterparts, I'd say.

(Curious how long the moderators will tolerate our distraction.) 

[Christo]

BTT: I confess to having forged a list here of some sort, but in reality I admire dozens of British composers, mostly from the beginnings of a national school on (which came late, only in the first decade of the 20th century). Yesterday I played some Alwyn and Arnell: both also deserve to be included, just as Bate, Howells, Foulds, Rawsthorne, Hoddinott, even Delius and Bantock

[vandermolen]

VW
Bax
Bate
Alwyn
Arnell
Rubbra
Arthur Butterworth (Symph.4 in particular)
Moeran
Foulds
HB

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

HB

Is that.............Harrison or Havergal? O.o

[some guy]

Haha, good one, jessop!

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Haha, good one, jessop!

Hey some guy! I was missing you for a bit because you don't seem to post here for periods of time every now and then.

I bet you could easily come up with 10 other brits with HB initials though

[some guy]

Well, it's good to be missed, I must say.

But yeah, from time to time there is just nothing I want to say about anything being discussed.

And making threads is sometimes tedious, too.

And I certainly could not come up with 10 other brits with the initials HB. I did wonder, briefly, how many I could come up with, but as soon as a certain French person's name popped into my head, I thought I'd better just stop wondering.

[vandermolen]

Is that.............Harrison or Havergal? O.o

Havergal

[André]

Much easier to list top 10 British than top ten French or Italian. Especially since "British" covers Welsh, Irish, Scots and "mixed breeds" if I may say so.

- Vaughan-Williams - À tout Seigneur, tout honneur (just google it  )
- Delius, the Crown Prince
- Elgar
- Arnold
- Holst
- Hoddinott
- Jones
- Britten
- Alwyn
- Rubbra
- Hoddinott, Howells, Bliss, Brian, Bax - where is one to stop  ?

[vandermolen]

Today's list:

Bax
Vaughan Williams
Walton
Rubbra
Bate
Bliss
Rootham
Rawsthorne
Holst
Arnold

[Monsieur Croche]

Naturalized at the tender young age of 42. Händel was every bit as British as Medtner, or Stravinsky an American.

This is a bump.

In my experience, the rather inconvenient truth - that composers who immigrate after a full and earlier life of training, their 'voice' and career already well-established, are -- as composers -- of their 'native' and not their adopted nationality. 

Every time I've brought up this point re: Händel, the English members go a bit round the bend, get their knickers in a twist. etc ;-)

Just as risible as calling Händel an English composer is calling Stravinsky (and Schoenberg) 'American Composers.'


Best regards

[Andante]

Yes, me too.

I've been living in Europe for the past four years, here and there, and there are two things that are important to everyone but me, where I was born and when I was born.

Not why were you born

Anyway, yes to Gerhard and to Rawsthorne as well, why not?

Natasha Barrett (unless she counts as Norwegian, now)
Diana Salazar
Tim Hodgkinson
Chris Cutler
Jonty Harrison
Keith Rowe
Anna Clyne
Graham Lambkin

Wow Why have I not heard of these composers

[North Star]

Benjamin Britten
Edward Elgar
Ralph Vaughan Williams
William Byrd
Henry Purcell
John Dowland
Thomas Tallis
Michael Tippett
Gustav Holst
Gerald Finzi