Talk:Percy Hilder Miles
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Nationality and general concern
[edit]Unable at the moment to determine birthplace with any certainty, but was in England studying at the RAM by 1893 or earlier - may have been born in England or elsewhere in what is now Great Britain, of course; just I don't know is all. I'm not positive of our (or even the) definition of English composer and didn't want to include him in that category on such weak information, though I am guessing strongly that he was European anyway. Not an extensively studied composer (not saying he should be or is more than marginally significant - I like the one minor and one major work I've heard of his musical output but that's a tangential concern :), and any claim to significance might rest on his influence on two other more famous musicians' careers, which may I admit be a touch flimsy - I put that forward 'boldly' for all of that. The various awards won most likely don't cut it of course- though I am curious to learn a bit more about the MacFarren scholarship, have now learned a little though not whether it is named for G.A. or brother Walter... :) Might find more information anyway...) Schissel | Sound the Note! 23:00, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
(Obviously, birthplace in London suburb Erith, or at least claim in contemporary accounts (confirmed, I think, in more recent genealogies of his family...) determined since the above comment. ) Schissel | Sound the Note! 20:27, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
This and that
[edit]I have tried to augment the IMSLP worklist a little more (beyond SJ's terrific efforts), and have found, too, notice of a performance a few years back that coupled the 1912-7 sextet with the 1897 septet (which Worldcat only notes was published in a full score excerpt, but which obviously still existed in full at least at the time of the Carnegie Ensemble concert celebrating the centenary of PH Miles' death.) The series of recordings of his chamber music that has begun is also, I believe, a good and promising thing :) ELSchissel (talk) 14:21, 19 October 2024 (UTC)