Frank Bridge Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Frank Bridge NPG x15183

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Unknown photographer

A distinguished string player and conductor, Bridge made his name as a composer with works including The Sea and String Sextet (both 1912). He was a pacifist who was deeply anguished by the First World War. Many of his friends and colleagues were killed in action, including the composer Ernest Farrar, to whom he dedicated his Piano Sonata (1921-4). Lament (for Catherine, aged 9, 'Lusitania' 1915) (1915) was composed in memory of a girl drowned when the passenger ship Lusitania was sunk by a German... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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