![]() ![]() Here are two jewels that may have not made it, had it not been for Fellowes.Īlfred Deller with Desmond Dupré, Philip Rosseter – ‘What then is love but mourning’Īndreas Scholl with Andreas Martin, John Dowland – ‘Flow my tears’ Through his researches in libraries, largely at the British Museum and the Bodleian in Oxford, Fellowes rediscovered the lute song, disinterring John Dowland and a host of forgotten English composers in the process, and single-handedly edited the whole repertoire of 450 songs, thereby saving it from oblivion. ![]() A more sympathetic musical portrait of him comes from his younger contemporary Herbert Howells (1892–1983), who characterized him in the second movement – entitled “ Fellowes’s Delight” – of his set of piano miniatures Lambert’s Clavichord, published in 1928. ![]() He also toured Holland and Belgium with his lute, and was a very popular public speaker, who had been filling halls throughout the UK since 1904.Īlthough once rather unkindly described as “a stiff-necked Anglican clergyman,” he was also quite a celebrity. George in Windsor Castle and the Choristers of Westminster Abbey” and had returned to make five further three-month-long North American lecture-recital tours (the first at the invitation of President Coolidge’s wife) which ended, in 1936, with his final lute song performance (at the age of 66) being broadcast on the radio from New York. He had conducted a “fantastically successful” nine-week concert tour of Canada, with a choir made up of “the Gentlemen of His Majesty’s Free Chapel of St. He’d already had been given an MVO in 1930, as well as honorary doctorates from Oxford, Cambridge and Trinity College, Dublin. It includes almost every well-known contemporary British musician and composer, along with many famous names from other fields, which demonstrates his reputation at the time. Always a meticulous man, he compiled an annotated alphabetical list of all the 220 letters of congratulations he received. Reproduced by kind permission of the Dean and Canons of WindsorĮdmund (E.H.) Fellowes (1870–1951) – pictured here with his wife – was made a Companion of Honour in 1944. ![]()
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