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The Society of British Composers was founded in 1905 to provide publication and performance opportunities for English composers.[1]
History
In the late 1800s and early 1900s a number of talented composers were graduating from the Royal Academy of Music without any avenue for publication and performance of their work. The problem came to a head with the brilliant Piano Sonata in D Minor produced by the young composer Benjamin Dale. The sonata extended to sixty pages, leading to problems in publication, and the Society of British Composers was founded by Frederick Corder, John Blackwood McEwen and Tobias Matthay at the Royal Academy of Music to address that and similar problems. The society published the sonata in its first publication through its imprint Charles Avison, Ltd.[2]
Frederick Corder served as the first chairman, and the society followed a publication plan which provided a selection of compositions for use in performance. Publication was made under the imprint of Charles Avison, Ltd. through Brietkopf & Hartel, which was later changed to Cary and then to Novello.[3]
The society was founded without women members,[4] but by 1914 women such as Frances Cocking were allowed to join.[5]
References
- ^ "136TH GARLAND OF BRITISH LIGHT MUSIC COMPOSERS". Retrieved 29 February 2012.
- ^ Hardy, Lisa (2001). The British piano sonata, 1870-1945.
- ^ Foreman, Lewis (2007). Bax: a composer and his times.
- ^ Clark, Linda L. (2008). Women and Achievement in Nineteenth-Century Europe.
- ^ "Frances Mary Hefford Cocking". Retrieved 29 February 2012.