... in 1868, the composer Granville Bantock was born in London. Highly regarded in his day, a friend of Sibelius and Richard Strauss, he is largely forgotten today. Which is really too bad, because his best music - such as the Celtic Symphony, written in 1940, which I am listening to right now - is wonderfully beautiful. Oh, I realize that it isn't enough nowadays for a piece of music to be simply lovely to listen to. But it's enough for me.
You can learn more about Bantock from A Brief Introduction to the Life and Work of Sir Granville Bantock by Vincent Budd.
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