Rutland Boughton
Born: 23rd January 1878, Aylesbury, UK
Died: 25th January 1960, Barnes, London, UK
Nationality: English
Rutland Boughton was an English composer who became well known in the early 20th century as a composer of opera and choral music. He was also an influential communist activist within the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB).
His oeuvre includes three symphonies, several concertos, part-songs, songs, chamber music and opera (which he called "music drama" after Wagner). His best known work was the opera The Immortal Hour. His Bethlehem (1915), based on the Coventry Nativity Play and notable for its choral arrangements of traditional Christmas carols, also became very popular with choral societies worldwide.
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- Aylesbury Games (1)
- Bethlehem (1)
- Celtic Prelude (The Land of Heart's Desire) (1)
- Concerto for Oboe and Strings No. 1 in C (2)
- Concerto for String Orchestra (1)
- Concerto in D major for flute and strings (1)
- Faery Song (3)
- Fair is Our Lot (Rudyard Kipling) (1)
- Five Celtic Love Songs (1)
- Four Songs, Op. 24 (1)
- Midir's 'Faery Song' from The Immortal Hour, Act II (1)
- Oboe Quartet No. 1 (2)
- Somerset Pastoral (1)
- Songs of Womanhood, Op. 33 (1)
- String Quartet in A major ‘On Greek Folk Songs' (1)
- String Quartet in F major ‘From the Welsh Hills' (1)
- Sweet Ass (1)
- Symbol Songs (1)
- Symphony No. 1 ‘Oliver Cromwell’ (1)
- Symphony No. 3 in B minor (2)
- The Coastwise Lights (‘Our Brows are Bound with Spindrift’) (Rudyard Kipling) (1)
- The Immortal Hour (1)
- The Immortal Hour - Love Duet for Orchestra (1)
- The Price of Admiralty (‘We Have Fed Our Seas’) (Rudyard Kipling) (1)
- The Queen of Cornwall (1)
- Three Folk Dances (1)
- Three Songs without Words for oboe quartet (1)
- Three Songs, Op. 39 (1)
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