biography
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Gurney, Ivor (Bertie)
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| lived:
| (1890–1937)
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| biography:
| Composer and poet, born in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, SWC England, UK. He studied at the Royal College of Music in London. As a composer he found his voice in 1913/14 with the composition of Five Elizabethan Songs. Gassed and shell-shocked in 1917, he published two volumes of poems from hospital: Severn and Somme (1917) and War's Embers (1919). From 1922 he was confined in an asylum, and died in London. Some 300 songs and 900 poems survive, whose quality is increasingly recognized. In 1982 a major collection of his 300 poems was issued. |
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