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Ernest John Moeran
12+ albums
Classicalenglish20th Century Classicalenglandchamber music
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Ernest John Moeran (December 31, 1894–December 1, 1950) was an English composer. Moeran was born in Heston (in the London Borough of Hounslow), the son of a clergyman of Irish descent, but his family soon moved to Bacton on the Coast of Norfolk, England. He learnt the violin and the piano as a child and, from 1913, studied at the Royal College of Music with Charles Villiers Stanford. He received serious head wounds in World War I and this is generally believed to have contributed to mental ill-health in later life. After the war he returned to the College to resume his studies, now with John Ireland. His first mature compositions, songs and chamber music, date from this time. He also began collecting and arranging folk music of Norfolk and other regions. By the mid-1920s, Moeran had became close friends with Peter Warlock and they lived for some years in Eynsford, Kent, notorious among the locals for their frequent drunken revelry. For the rest of his life, Moeran was to have problems with alcohol, later joined by mental instability. After Warlock's death, he became interested in his Irish roots and began spending much of his time in Kenmare, County Kerry. He married the cellist Peers Coetmore in 1945. The marriage was not entirely happy although it inspired some of Moeran's masterpieces, the Cello Concerto and Cello Sonata. He died suddenly of a cerebral haemorrhage in Kenmare at the age of 55. He was found in the River Kenmare and it was at first assumed he had drowned
top songs
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Cello Concerto: II. Adagio
3,0452Irish Lament
1,1133Songs of Springtime: No. 7. To Daffodils
1,0034Prelude for Cello & Piano
5835Lonely Waters
4586Symphony in G Minor: I. Allegro
4467Symphony in G Minor: II. Lento
4218Violin Concerto: I. Allegro moderato
3839Violin Concerto: II. Rondo: Vivace - Alla valse burlesca
29310Serenade in G Major (original version): II. Air: Lento, ma non troppo
252albums
Moeran: Cello Concerto - Serenade
Moeran: Symphony in G Minor / Overture for A Masque / Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra
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Moeran: Songs of Springtime / Phyllida and Corydon / Warlock: Choral Works
Moeran: Violin Concerto / Cello Concerto / Lonely Waters / Whythorne's Shadow
Moeran: Serenade in G Major / Rhapsodies Nos. 1 and 2 / in the Mountain Country / Nocturne
Moeran: String Quartet No. 1 / Fantasy Quartet / Violin Sonata in E Minor
MOERAN: String Quartets / String Trio
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The Lark Ascending
Moeran: Sinfonietta, Symphony in G minor, Overture for a Masque
Moeran: Symphony in G Minor, Overture for a Masque & Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra
MOERAN: Symphony in G minor / Sinfonietta
MOERAN: Symphony in G minor / Sinfonietta