Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir (Charles) Hubert Hastings Parry, 1st Bt NPG 3877

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by William Rothenstein

Prior to the First World War, the public mainly experienced classical music through live concerts, where German works frequently appeared, alongside those of the German-influenced British composers including Sir Hubert Parry. Parry was devastated when war was confirmed. As Director of the Royal College of Music (1895-1918), he witnessed the new generation of composers leave for the frontline and a growing rejection of Germanic music. Parry’s symphonic poem for orchestra, From Death to Life (1914), reflected his despair. Jerusalem (formerly And Did Those Feet In... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.