Gerald Cumberland

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Gerald Cumberland is the pseudonym of the British author, journalist, poet, and composer Charles Frederick Kenyon (1879-1926). [1] [2] Kenyon was a librettist, a writer of essays and of some pieces of police literature.

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Trained as a musician, for several years Kenyon was the drama and music critic of Daily Critic. In 1901 under his own as name, he produced a study of the work of the writer and playwright Hall Caine and in 1904, a work for beginner musicians.

As a composer, his musical scores included The Maiden and the Flower Garden (1914), an operetta for children. The orchestration by Julius Harrison of his Cleopatra cantata helped the young Harrison towards recognition as a composer.

In 1919 he used the pseudonym Gerald Cumberland to publish his "Books of Reminiscences", two important critical essays on musical life in England, as well some works of police literature. His book Set Down in Malice was partly based on his two extensive interviews (1906 and 1913) of Edward Elgar, [3] and also describes a meeting with G.B.Shaw as A Terrible Walk. [4]

Works

Novels

Short stories

Novella

Other publications

As Gerald Cumberland

  • Set Down in Malice: a Book of Reminiscences (1919)
  • Written in Friendship: a Book of Reminiscences (1924)

As Charles Frederick Kenyon (ou C. Fred Kenyon)

  • Hall Caine, the Man and the Novelist (1901)
  • How to Memorize Music (1904)

Compositions

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References

  1. ↑ "Cumberland, Gerald (1879-1926)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 17 December 2016.
  2. ↑ "Kenyon, C. Fred, (Charles Frederick) (1879-1926)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 17 December 2016.
  3. ↑ Fuller, Sophie; Whitesell, Lloyd (2008). Queer Episodes in Music and Modern Identity. University of Illinois Press. p.  223. ISBN   978-0-252-07578-0 . Retrieved 17 December 2016.
  4. ↑ Gibbs, A M, ed. (1990). Shaw. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 281, 282. ISBN   978-1-349-05402-2.
  5. ↑ A Lover at Forty (1900). Accessed 17 December 2016 (Open Library)
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