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Three Rustic Poems of John Clare

By Terence Greaves

Three Rustic Poems of John Clare

By Terence Greaves

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For soprano voice and clarinet in A (Grade 6-7). Duration 9'50" The Three Rustic Poems of John Clare were commissioned by Angela Beale and John Radcliffe, and were originally composed for voice and viola. In 1976 Terence Greaves made this arrangement for voice and clarinet. 1.Quail's Nest 2.November 3.Little Trotty Wagtail - Terence Greaves was born in 1933. He read music at Keble College, Oxford. Following this, he began work as a lecturer at the Birmingham School of Music, later becoming Director of Studies. This brought him into contact with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, particularly the wind quintet and its clarinettist John Fuest, with whom he worked regularly in concerts and broadcasts. He has written many vocal and instrumental pieces. For the CBSO he composed a pair of fun pieces: for Wind Quintet - 'Beethoven's Fifth Bossa Nova' and for Brass Quintet - Rimsky's Rumba. He became Dean at the Royal Northern College of Music, from which he took early retirement to work as a freelance composer, accompanist, lecturer, writer and music consultant on examination matters. He was the examiner for the first examinations of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music in Vienna in 1986. He died in 2009.
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Publication Date:
1978
Publisher:
Emerson Edition Ltd
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