Hubert Parry

thumb|right|Hubert Parry c. 1916 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. 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 1904 London George Routledge & Sons 155 https://archive.org/details/studiesgreatcom00parrgoog/page/n92/mode/2up (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 1 1902 Oxford at the Clarendon Press https://archive.org/details/musicofseventeen00parrrich/page/n9/mode/2up 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 1909 New York G. P. Putnam's Sons 1 https://archive.org/details/imslp-sebastian-bach-parry-charles-hubert-hastings/page/n21/mode/2up External links Category:Composers from England Category:Musicologists Category:Musicians from England Category:Academics from England Category:Historians from England Category:Educators from England Category:1848 births Category:1918 deaths Category:University of Oxford alumni