Well, no. That's not why. He is explicit about picking Sibelius to represent a particular group of composers.
It would be easy to talk about RVW in a social history - the lead-in would be the revival of an English compositional transition, starting with Elgar, after a couple of centuries of somnolence.
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Date: 2009-04-23 02:25 pm (UTC)It would be easy to talk about RVW in a social history - the lead-in would be the revival of an English compositional transition, starting with Elgar, after a couple of centuries of somnolence.