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No 6 (using themes that maintain the flavor of mournful folk melodies), or the first movement of the Symphony in D, where the coda develops into a masterly canon. But in the early 1930s Morris stopped composing and would never talk about his own compositions from that point onwards. Today he is
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His compositions have been overshadowed by his formidable reputation as a teacher. However, Morris enjoyed a ten-year period of creativity as a composer roughly between 1922 and 1932, writing symphonic and chamber music, songs and choral works. One of the first, the
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Much of his most powerful music is contrapuntally-led, as in the final Chaconne of the Sinfonia in C, the intense fugal and canonic writing of the
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Two Centuries of British Symphonism: From the beginnings to 1945. A preliminary survey. With a foreword by Lewis Foreman. Volume 1
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Blow away the Morning Dew, Cold Blows the Wind, High Germany, The Turtle-Dove, The Mare and the Foal)
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Morris became famous as an exceptional teacher of counterpoint, and wrote several texts including
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as Morris's "one genuine masterpiece” and described it as a "grave and lovely" work.
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at the other extreme and the Symphony in D (first performed on 1 January 1934 at the
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Five English folk-songs: freely arranged for unaccompanied chorus (S.S.A.T.B.)
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In February 1915 Morris married Emmie Fisher, thus becoming brother-in-law to
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Gerald Finzi thought highly of his music, and in an obituary piece (quoted in
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and composition in 1920. From 1926 for two years he taught at the
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The Sinfonia in C was revived at the English Music Festival in
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Morris, Reginald Owen, by H C Colles and Howard Ferguson,
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as music critic he re-joined the RCM as a professor of
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Concerto piccolo, for two violins and string orchestra
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War Composers: The Music of World War 1 - R O Morris
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Index

R O Morris

York
Harrow School
New College, Oxford
Royal College of Music
London
Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
George Butterworth
Geoffrey Toye
The Nation
counterpoint
Curtis Institute
Philadelphia
Hugo Cole
Jean Coulthard
Gerald Finzi
Sir Michael Tippett
Constant Lambert
Robin Milford
Anthony Milner
Edmund Rubbra
Bernard Stevens
Carnegie Trust
Carnegie Collection of British Music
Diana McVeagh
Queen’s Hall
Stephen Banfield
Love Came Down at Christmas
Dorchester Abbey

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