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Posted by John France on May 31, 2007, 8:05 am But can we push the date back further than 1880? Or is the true symbol of renewal actually Sir Edward Elgar’s Enigma Variations? Do readers feel that that this is fair? Do they know of any works anterior to Parry that may be seen to be strong claimants to the title? For example, what about Sir Arthur Sullivan's thoroughly enjoyable Irish Symphony (with all its faults and nods to Mendelssohn) of 1866? I would be interested to hear.
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Conventional wisdom (and Michael Trend in The Music Makers) posits that Charles Hubert Hastings Parry's Scenes Scenes from Prometheus Unbound (Shelley) for chorus & orchestra which was first performed at Gloucester on 7 Sept 1880, as the beginning of the English Musical Renaissance. And I suppose it is a convenient reference point.
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