Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Humphrey Searle NPG 6599

© estate of Michael Ayrton / National Portrait Gallery, London

by Michael Ayrton

Composer and writer on music, Searle studied at the Royal College of Music and the Vienna Conservatorium. A prolific writer and composer, his work was influenced by Liszt and Schoenberg and includes the operas Diary of a Madman (1958) and Hamlet (1968), and the orchestral work Labyrinth (1971). In 1950 he was a founder of the Liszt Society, with Constant Lambert, William Walton and the Sitwells. Searle wrote the seminal work on the composer Liszt, and other works include Twentieth Century Composers: Britain,... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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