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Rubbra

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Rubbra
(Charles) Edmund. 1901--86, English composer of works in a traditional idiom


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This latter aspect of the instrument was heard last night in Finzi's Interlude and in some passages of the oboe sonatas by Howells and Rubbra.
Some still view him as a malign influence, an uncompromising modernist whose lack of sympathy for the homegrown "cowpat" tendency in British music left composers such as Robert Simpson, Edmund Rubbra and Malcolm Arnold neglected.
At least similarly traduced Brits, notably Sir Arnold Bax and Sir William Walton, make fleeting appearances in Ross's text, though their equally able compatriot Edmund Rubbra does not.
 
 
 
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