Ernest John Moeran (Composer)
Born: 31st December 1894, London, England
Died: 1st December 1950, Kenmare, Ireland
Nationality: English
Ernest John Smeed Moeran was an English composer of part-Irish extraction, whose work was strongly influenced by English and Irish folk music of which he was an assiduous collector. His output includes orchestral pieces, concertos, chamber and keyboard works, and a number of choral and song cycles as well as individual songs.
The son of a clergyman, Moeran studied at the Royal College of Music under Charles Villiers Stanford before service in the army during the First World War, in which he was wounded. After the war he was a pupil of John Ireland, and quickly established a reputation as a composer of promise with a number of well-received works. From 1925 to 1928 he shared a cottage with the composer Peter Warlock; the bohemian lifestyle and heavy drinking during this period interrupted his creativity for a while, and sowed the seeds of the alcoholism that would blight his later life.
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Moeran Cello Concerto from Guy Johnston
Eloquent yet never saccharine, the British cellist is a wonderful ambassador for Moeran’s 1945 concerto, written for his wife-to-be Peers Coetmore and shot through with glimpses of Britten, Vaughan Williams and Walton.
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Popular Works: Moeran
- Bank Holiday (6)
- Cello Concerto (6)
- Cello Sonata in A minor (4)
- Fantasy-Quartet for Oboe, Violin, Viola and Cello (4)
- Far in a western brookland (4)
- In The Mountain Country (4)
- In youth is pleasure (5)
- Irish Elegy (4)
- Irish Love Song (3)
- Lonely Waters (3)
- Ludlow Town: Song Cycle (4) (3)
- Oh fair enough are sky and plain (4)
- On a May Morning (4)
- Overture for a Masque (3)
- Piano Trio in D major (3)
- Prelude (7)
- Rhapsodies Nos. 1 & 2 (2)
- Rhapsody for Piano & Orchestra (4)
- Serenade in G (4)
- Seven Poems of James Joyce (3)
- Sinfonietta (5)
- Sonata in A major for 2 violins (3)
- Songs of Springtime (6)
- Stalham River (4)
- String Quartet No. 1 in A minor (4)
- String Quartet No. 2 in E flat major (4)
- String Trio in G major (1931), R.59 (4)
- Summer Valley (5)
- Symphony in G minor (6)
- The Sailor and Young Nancy (4)
- Theme and Variations (4)
- Three Fancies (5)
- Three Piano Pieces (4)
- Toccata (4)
- Two Legends (4)
- Two Pieces (3)
- Violin Concerto (8)
- Violin Sonata in E minor (2)
- Weep You No More, Sad Fountains (4)
- Whythorne's Shadow (2)
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