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For me, two stories from Fellowes’ 1946 autobiography, Memoirs of an Amateur Musician, stand out: Byrd’s Great Service According to Fellowes, “the greatest thrill in the course of the whole of [his] researches” was finding Byrd’s Great Service, which he stumbled upon while visiting Durham to complete some Gibbons anthems. As soon as he [...] Arnold Dolmetsch with his family Reproduced by kind permission of the University of Melbourne, [Percy] Grainger Museum. For full details see here.
I mentioned in my last post that Mary Potts is remembered only in her obituaries, the most complete of which was published in The Bulletin, the house journal of the Dolmetsch Foundation, which did [...] Early Music (i.e. music up to around 1800) started to become more widely popular after World War II. This blog will primarily be about the pioneers who re-discovered this repertoire and started playing it on original instruments, or modern copies, in the authentic style, which is now often called historically informed performance, or HIP for [...] |
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