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Benjamin Dale

British composer

Benjamin James Dale (17 July 1885 – 30 July 1943) was an English composer and academic who had a long association with the Royal Academy of Music. Dale showed compositional talent from an early age and went on to write a small but notable corpus of works. His best-known composition is probably the large-scale Piano Sonata in D minor he started while still a student at the Royal Academy of Music, which communicates in a potent late romantic style. Christopher Foreman has proposed a comprehensive reassessment of Benjamin Dale's music. Dale married one of his students, the pianist and composer Kathleen Richards in 1921.

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Works

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  • Before the Paling of the Stars
  • Concertstück
  • English Dance
  • Impromptu in D-flat major for piano “Night Fancies”, op. 3
  • Prunella
  • Prunella, op. 10
  • Romance for Viola and Orchestra, from Suite, Op. 2: Lento, quasi fantasia
  • Rosa Mystica
  • Sonata in D minor for piano, op. 1
  • Sonata in D minor for piano, op. 1: I. Allegro deciso
  • Sonata in D minor for piano, op. 1: II. Slow Movement, Scherzo and Finale
  • Sonata in D minor for piano, op. 1: II. Slow Movement, Scherzo and Finale: Andante
  • Sonata in D minor for piano, op. 1: II. Slow Movement, Scherzo and Finale: Finale. Molto allegro — Lento
  • Sonata in D minor for piano, op. 1: II. Slow Movement, Scherzo and Finale: Molto adagio
  • Sonata in D minor for piano, op. 1: II. Slow Movement, Scherzo and Finale: Scherzo. Variation V. Presto
  • Sonata in D minor for piano, op. 1: II. Slow Movement, Scherzo and Finale: Variation I
  • Sonata in D minor for piano, op. 1: II. Slow Movement, Scherzo and Finale: Variation II. Molto adagio
  • Sonata in D minor for piano, op. 1: II. Slow Movement, Scherzo and Finale: Variation III. Allegretto con grazia
  • Sonata in D minor for piano, op. 1: II. Slow Movement, Scherzo and Finale: Variation IV. Adagio maestoso
  • Sonata in D minor for piano, op. 1: II. Slow Movement, Scherzo and Finale: Variation VI. Tempo di Mazurka
  • Sonata in D minor for piano, op. 1: II. Slow Movement, Scherzo and Finale: Variation VII. Prestissimo —
  • The Flowing Tide