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Cyril Meir Scott (27 September 1879 – 31 December 1970) was an English composer, writer, poet, and occultist. He created around four hundred musical compositions including piano, violin, cello concertos, symphonies, and operas. He also wrote around 20 pamphlets and books on occult topics and natural health.
Biography
Scott was born in
Oxton,
Cheshire to Henry Scott (1843-1918), shipper and
scholar of Greek and
Hebrew, and Mary (née Griffiths), an amateur pianist of Welsh origin.[1] He showed a talent for music from an early age and was sent to the
Hoch Conservatory in
Frankfurt,
Germany to study piano in 1892 at age 12. He studied with
Iwan Knorr and belonged to the
Frankfurt Group, a circle of composers who studied at the Hoch Conservatory in the late 1890s. At 20, the German poet
Stefan George helped Scott organize a performance of Scott's first symphony. He played his Piano Quartet with
Fritz Kreisler, Emil Kreuz, and Ludwig Lebell in St. James' Hall in 1903.[2]
In 1902 he met the pianist
Evelyn Suart, with whom he had a long artistic association. She championed his music, premiering many of his works, and introducing him to his publisher, Elkin, with whom he remained for the rest of his life. Evelyn Suart was also a Christian Scientist, and it was through her that Scott became interested in
metaphysics.[3][4] Scott dedicated his Scherzo, Op. 25 to Evelyn Suart.[4][5]
Music
His experiments in free rhythm, generated by expanding musical motifs, above all in his First Piano Sonata of 1909,[6] appear to have exerted an influence on Stravinsky's
The Rite of Spring (see The Cyril Scott Companion, pp. 45–47). He used to be known as 'the English Debussy', though this reflected little knowledge of Scott and little understanding of Debussy.[7]
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abScott, Desmond. “The Therapeutic Books.” The Cyril Scott Companion: Unity in Diversity, edited by Desmond Scott et al., NED - New edition ed., Boydell & Brewer, Woodbridge, Suffolk; Rochester, NY, 2018, pp. 359–370.
This article's
lead sectionmay be too short to adequately
summarize the key points. Please consider expanding the lead to
provide an accessible overview of all important aspects of the article.(March 2019)
Cyril Meir Scott (27 September 1879 – 31 December 1970) was an English composer, writer, poet, and occultist. He created around four hundred musical compositions including piano, violin, cello concertos, symphonies, and operas. He also wrote around 20 pamphlets and books on occult topics and natural health.
Biography
Scott was born in
Oxton,
Cheshire to Henry Scott (1843-1918), shipper and
scholar of Greek and
Hebrew, and Mary (née Griffiths), an amateur pianist of Welsh origin.[1] He showed a talent for music from an early age and was sent to the
Hoch Conservatory in
Frankfurt,
Germany to study piano in 1892 at age 12. He studied with
Iwan Knorr and belonged to the
Frankfurt Group, a circle of composers who studied at the Hoch Conservatory in the late 1890s. At 20, the German poet
Stefan George helped Scott organize a performance of Scott's first symphony. He played his Piano Quartet with
Fritz Kreisler, Emil Kreuz, and Ludwig Lebell in St. James' Hall in 1903.[2]
In 1902 he met the pianist
Evelyn Suart, with whom he had a long artistic association. She championed his music, premiering many of his works, and introducing him to his publisher, Elkin, with whom he remained for the rest of his life. Evelyn Suart was also a Christian Scientist, and it was through her that Scott became interested in
metaphysics.[3][4] Scott dedicated his Scherzo, Op. 25 to Evelyn Suart.[4][5]
Music
His experiments in free rhythm, generated by expanding musical motifs, above all in his First Piano Sonata of 1909,[6] appear to have exerted an influence on Stravinsky's
The Rite of Spring (see The Cyril Scott Companion, pp. 45–47). He used to be known as 'the English Debussy', though this reflected little knowledge of Scott and little understanding of Debussy.[7]
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abScott, Desmond. “The Therapeutic Books.” The Cyril Scott Companion: Unity in Diversity, edited by Desmond Scott et al., NED - New edition ed., Boydell & Brewer, Woodbridge, Suffolk; Rochester, NY, 2018, pp. 359–370.