Previous posts for October 30th are here: Peter Warlock; Frans Brüggen (2019), and Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge (2020), and Peter Warlock (2021)
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Peter Warlock (30 October 1894 – 17 December 1930) was a largely self-taught composer. He wrote criticism using his real name, Philip Heseltine.
Limitations
Warlock's surviving body of work includes about 150 songs, mostly for solo voice and piano. – Wikipedia
When Warlock considered his career
In a very small musical sphere,
He thought, from his pond,
Of the fishes beyond,
And envied them year after year.
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Unico Wilhelm, Count van Wassenaer Obdam (30 October 1692 – 9 November 1766) was a Dutch nobleman who was a diplomat as well as a composer.
It’s Mine, All Mine!
His most important surviving compositions are the Concerti Armonici, which until 1980 had been misattributed to the Italian composer Giovanni Battista Pergolesi and to Carlo Ricciotti. Wilhelm’s Concerto Armonico No. 2 in B flat Major (Allegro moderato) was among the works that formed the basis for Igor Stravinsky’s Pulcinella “Tarantella”, based on works considered at the time to be by Pergolesi. – adapted from Wikipedia
Said Unico Wilhelm, “It’s crazy!
I wrote some good stuff; I’m not lazy!
And I think it’s a shame
That my musical fame
Has been pilfered by one Pergolesi.”
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