Elisabeth Lutyens

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(Agnes) Elisabeth Lutyens, CBE, born London, July 9, 1906– died London, April 14, 1983) was a significant English composer. Early Life and Education She was one of the five children of architect Sir Edwin Lutyens and his wife Emily, who was profoundly involved in the Theosophical Movement. From 1911 the young Krishnamurti was living in their London house as a friend of Elisabeth and her sisters. At age nine she began to aspire to be a composer, which given the prowess of her father in architecture, and the domineering nature of her mother, allowed her to elude her parents' attempt to live vicariously through their children. In 1922, Lutyens pursued her musical education at the École Normale de Musique in Paris, before accompanying her mother to India in 1923. On her return she studied with John Foulds and subsequently continued her musical education from 1926-30 at the Royal College of Music in London as a pupil of Harold Darke. Compositional Style and Development Lutyens is credited with bringing Schoenbergian serial technique (albeit her own very personal interpretation of it) to the UK. She disapproved of the 'overblown sound' of Mahler and similar composers, and instead chose to work with spare textures and develop her own type of serialism; she first used a 12-note series in Chamber Concerto I for 9 instruments (1939), a work that has been compared with Webern's op.24 Concerto, but earlier than this she had been using the techniques of inversion and retrograde fundam

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Elisabeth Lutyens

Elisabeth Lutyens: Piano Works, Volume 2

Lutyens: A Centennial Celebration

Elisabeth Lutyens: Piano Works, Volume 3

Elisabeth Lutyens: Piano Works, Volume 1

Lutyens: Chamber Works

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Sonata Movement (Allegro molto)

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The Check Book: XI. Plainte

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Dance Souvenance

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Elisabeth Lutyens: Organ Music

Lutyens: Presages - Wind Trio - Magnificat and Nunc dimittis - String Trio - Fantasie-Trio

Elisabeth Lutyens (1906-1983)

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