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2 - Composing Influence

Lutyens’s Compositional Beginnings, 1938–1961

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2023

Annika Forkert
Affiliation:
Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester
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Above all, Elisabeth Lutyens wanted to be a professional composer. This was not a simple goal for a young, modern, British, and female composer in what Sarah Collins has dubbed the ‘anti-intellectual’ climate in early twentieth-century British music criticism.2 Looking back, Lutyens later refined this goal: ‘the writing & making of music is my occupation, my profession, my livelihood, my giver of spiritual nourishment, my whole way of living & as a dog barks & a child screams I write music & for me it’s doing what comes naturally’.3 From this idea of composition as a natural outlet of creative energy stemmed her pride in being able to produce both ‘art’ and ‘journalistic’ music with intricate knowledge of the conventions in the differing musical and social circles and hierarchies she moved in.

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Elisabeth Lutyens and Edward Clark
The Orchestration of Progress in British Twentieth-Century Music
, pp. 66 - 112
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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  • Composing Influence
  • Annika Forkert, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester
  • Book: Elisabeth Lutyens and Edward Clark
  • Online publication: 05 October 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009337342.004
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  • Composing Influence
  • Annika Forkert, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester
  • Book: Elisabeth Lutyens and Edward Clark
  • Online publication: 05 October 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009337342.004
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  • Composing Influence
  • Annika Forkert, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester
  • Book: Elisabeth Lutyens and Edward Clark
  • Online publication: 05 October 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009337342.004
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