Cyril Scott - Encyclopedia Britannica 1911

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"CYRIL SCOTT (1879-), English musical composer, pianist and author, born at Oxton, Birkenhead, Sept. 27 1879, was musically educated at the Hoch conservatorium, Frankfurt A/M, chiefly under Ivan Knorr. While still in the pupil stage Scott heard his first symphony performed at Darmstadt in 1899. On Scott's return to England Hans Richter produced an orchestra suite by him at Liverpool. Subsequently Scott produced a vast amount of music, more especially of songs, most of which are on the same high level as that of the Schumacherlieder of his student days. Violin and pianoforte music also poured from his pen. A series of early overtures written for plays by Maeterlinck seem to have been suppressed, but there remain a Christmas overture, the two fine Passacaglias, the Ballad of Fair Helen, La Belle Dame sans Merci, and a pianoforte concerto and also two quintets, a piano quartet and a violin sonata. Scott also published several volumes of poems, including The Voice of the Ancient (1910); The Vales of Unity (1912); The Celestial Aftermath (1915) and the prose book The Philosophy of Modernism (1917). In 1920 his Nativity Hymn was accepted for publication by the Carnegie Trust, and in 1921 he paid a visit to the United States.