The Makers of British Music: Famous Living British Composers of the Old School and the New
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The Makers of British Music: Famous Living British Composers of the Old School and the New
after Samuel Begg
relief halftone, published 24 October 1908
16 in. x 22 in. (406 mm x 559 mm) paper size
Purchased, 2011
Reference Collection
NPG D42284
Artistback to top
- Samuel Begg (1854-1936), Illustrator and sculptor. Artist or producer associated with 4 portraits.
Sittersback to top
- Sir Granville Bantock (1868-1946), Composer. Sitter in 8 portraits. Identify
- Sir (John) Frederick Bridge (1844-1924), Organist, composer and musical antiquary. Sitter in 9 portraits. Identify
- Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912), Composer. Sitter in 6 portraits. Identify
- Sir Frederic Hymen Cowen (1852-1935), Composer and conductor. Sitter in 17 portraits. Identify
- William Hayman Cummings (1831-1915), Singer and musical antiquary; Principal of the Guildhall School of Music. Sitter in 4 portraits. Identify
- Sir (Henry) Walford Davies (1869-1941), Composer and organist. Sitter in 9 portraits. Identify
- Sir Edward Elgar, Bt (1857-1934), Composer and conductor. Sitter in 19 portraits. Identify
- Sir Edward German (1862-1936), Composer. Sitter in 25 portraits. Identify
- Sir (Herbert) Hamilton Harty (1879-1941), Musician, composer and conductor. Sitter in 3 portraits. Identify
- Josef Holbrooke (1878-1958), Composer. Sitter in 5 portraits. Identify
- Sir Alexander Campbell Mackenzie (1847-1935), Composer and conductor. Sitter in 18 portraits. Identify
- Sir George Clement Martin (1844-1916), Organist and composer. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
- Sir Walter Parratt (1841-1924), Composer and organist. Sitter in 5 portraits. Identify
- Sir (Charles) Hubert Hastings Parry, 1st Bt (1848-1918), Composer and historian of music. Sitter in 11 portraits. Identify
- Percival George ('Percy') Pitt (1869-1932), Conductor and music administrator. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
- Ebenezer Prout (1835-1909), Music theorist and journal editor. Sitter in 3 portraits. Identify
- Cyril Scott (1879-1970), Composer, poet and writer. Sitter in 4 portraits. Identify
- Dame Ethel Mary Smyth (1858-1944), Composer, writer and suffragette. Sitter in 26 portraits. Identify
- Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924), Composer. Sitter in 13 portraits. Identify
This portraitback to top
This composite portrait includes Coleridge-Taylor from the younger musical generation, alongside the established figures of Elgar, Stanford and Parry. Some of the portraits are derived from contemporary photographs, they include Dame Ethel Smyth, who composed the Women's Suffrage anthem.
Linked displays and exhibitionsback to top
- Samuel Coleridge-Taylor 1875-1912 Centenary (17 July 2012 - 17 March 2013)
Events of 1908back to top
Current affairs
Henry Asquith replaces Henry Campbell-Bannerman as Liberal leader and Prime Minister, with David Lloyd George taking control of the Exchequer. Asquith and Lloyd George embark on a bold programme of social reform, laying the foundations of the Welfare State, introducing government pensions this year and later a system of National Insurance.The first aeroplane for the British army is built by the American, Samuel Cody.
Art and science
E.M. Forster's novel A Room with a View is published, following the experiences of a young woman, Lucy Honeychurch, in the repressed culture of Edwardian England.The French art critic Louis Vauxcelles first uses the term 'cubism' to refer to a landscape painting by Georges Braque.
International
King Carlos of Portugal and his heir, Prince Luis Filipe, are killed by assassins from the Republican trying to provoke a revolution. Carlos I, unpopular because of his extravagant lifestyle and extramarital affairs, was succeeded by his younger son, Manuel, the last monarch of the Braganza dynasty.Following the death of the Guangxu Emperor in China, his two year old nephew replaces him, becoming the the last Manchu emperor of China.
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