Edmund Rubbra Biography

A pupil of Cyril Scott, the English composer Edmund Rubbra worked for the railways when he left school, but later won scholarships that allowed him to study music as a pupil of Gustav Holst. After earlier activity as a pianist in a distinguished piano trio, for some twenty years he was a lecturer in music at Oxford. As a composer his individual voice is heard in his eleven symphonies, while his moving Cello Sonata echoes his interest in counterpoint and in the earlier traditions of vocal music.