Book Description
his death in 1934 and his admirer's devotion to his work increasingly has
the characteristics of a cult. This volume was first out together to
celebrate the 70th birthday of his amanuensis Eric Fenby, and has been
reprinted because of the continuing demand.
Christopher Redwood has compiled this 'Delius Companion', which brings
together writings about the man and his music by distinguished musicians
and friends, which give a many-faceted picture of their subject. Felix
Aprahamian has written an Introduction to a symposium whose contributors
include John F. Runciman, Sir Thomas Beecham, Gerald Cumberland, Paul
Klenau, Richard Capell, C. W. Orr, Neville Cardus, Constant Lambert, Edwin
Evans, May Harrison, Ernest Newman, Cecily Arnold, Robert Nichols, Heinrich
Simon, Cecil Gray, Edward Dent, Philip Oyler, Sir Edward Elgar, Percey
Grainger, William Randel, Rachel Lowe, Lionel Carley, Robert Threlfall,
Deryck Cooke and Delius himself. Invaluable to the specialist and
fascinating to the general reader, the present volume should help to bring
more music lovers into contact with one of the most enjoyable of late
romantic composers, as well as collecting in permanent form so much of the
best writing and recollection about Frederick Delius.
