Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir (Charles) Hubert Hastings Parry, 1st Bt NPG Ax16164

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by W. & D. Downey, published by Cassell & Company, Ltd

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.