{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Audius","provider_url":"https://audius.co","title":"Spring Song (by Frank Bridge) - arr. violin piano by Violin Soundscapes • Audius","description":"Frank Bridge (26 February 1879 – 10 January 1941) was an English composer, violist and conductor. Bridge was born in Brighton, the ninth child of William Henry Bridge (1845-1928), a violin teacher and variety theatre conductor, formerly a master lithographic printer from a family of cordwainers, and his second wife, Elizabeth (née Warbrick; 1849-1899). His father \"ruled the household with a rod of iron\", and was insistent that his son spend regular long hours practising the violin; when Frank became sufficiently skilled, he would play with his father's pit bands, conducting in his absence, also arranging music and standing in for other instrumentalists.He studied at the Royal College of Music in London from 1899 to 1903 under Charles Villiers Stanford and others. He played the viola in a number of string quartets, most notably the English String Quartet (along with Marjorie Hayward), and conducted, sometimes deputising for Henry Wood, before devoting himself to composition, receiving the patronage of Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge.\n\nAccording to Benjamin Britten, Bridge had strong pacifist convictions, and he was deeply disturbed by the First World War, although the extent of his pacifism has been questioned in recent scholarship. During the war and immediately afterwards, Bridge wrote a number of pastoral and elegiac pieces that appear to search for spiritual consolation; principal among these are the Lament for strings, Summer for orchestra, A Prayer for chorus and orchestra, and a series of pastoral piano works. The Lament (for Catherine, aged 9 \"Lusitania\" 1915), for string orchestra, was written as a memorial to the sinking of the RMS Lusitania.The piece was premiered by the New Queen's Hall Orchestra, conducted by the composer, on 15 September, at the 1915 Proms, as part of a programme of \"Popular Italian music\", the rest of which was conducted by Henry Wood.","html":"","width":500,"height":480,"thumbnail_url":"https://v.monophonic.digital/content/01KFZG5N30EXF2EADM8972A1BN/480x480.jpg","thumbnail_width":480,"thumbnail_height":480,"author_name":"Violin Soundscapes","author_url":"https://audius.co/ViolinSoundscapes","cache_age":3600}