Hubert Parry

Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, 1st Baronet (27 February 1848 – 7 October 1918) was an English composer, teacher, and historian of music, knighted in 1898.

Hubert Parry c. 1916

Quotes

• It would be hard to find a stranger instance of the irony of fate in all the history of the world. After being the idol of musical Europe when a mere child, Mozart had fulfilled in maturity all the promise of his early years. But as his powers rose to nobler heights his worldly prosperity seemed to decrease. As years went on poverty pressed harder and harder on him.
  • Studies of Great Composers. London: George Routledge & Sons. 1904. p. 155.  (1st edition, 1886)

• Methods of art are the product of the patient labour of generations.
  • The Music of the Seventeenth Century, Volume III of the Oxford History of Music. Oxford at the Clarendon Press. 1902. p. 1. 

• Art seems to differ from other manifestations of human energy in welcolming so frankly the evidences of personality. Culture and progress alike deprecate aggressive individual prominence. The cherished ideal of the religious-minded is the effacement of self. The philosophical ideal is the entire and perfect accomodation of impulses and actions to the general well-being. But art not only welcomes the evidence of personal initiative; it demands as one of its first necessities copious and consistent proofs of individuality.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach: The Story of the Development of a Great Personality. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1909. p. 1. 

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