- Joy Finzi
Joy Finzi (
March 3 ,1907 -June 14 ,1991 ) was an artist and founder of theFinzi Trust , a foundation named for her deceased husband, composerGerald Finzi .She was born Joyce Black in Hampstead,
London . She studied music and art, and married Finzi in 1933. They had two sons, Christopher and Nigel.Together with her husband, Finzi played an important part in founding the Newbury String Players. She devoted much time to preserving the work of composer-poet
Ivor Gurney , continuing her husband's work after his premature death in 1956. She sketchedportrait s of contemporary musicians includingRalph Vaughan Williams , SirAdrian Boult ,Howard Ferguson and SirArthur Bliss , and writers includingEdmund Blunden ,Ursula Le Guin ,Sylvia Townsend Warner andDavid Jones .In 1969, she founded the Finzi Trust to finance the recording of her husband Gerald's work and that of other composers, and was instrumental in the formation of
Finzi Friends in 1982, a society furthering the work of the Trust. She continued to draw and sculpt, and published two volumes ofpoetry "A Point of Departure" and "Twelve Months of a Year". A collection of her portrait drawings was published in an edition of 300 by Libanus Press in 1987, with the title "In That Place".References
*Finzi, Joy. "In That Place" (Libanus Press, 1987) ISBN 0948021152
*Jordan, Rolf. "The Clock of the Years: A Gerald and Joy Finzi Anthology" (Chosen Press, 2007) ISBN 9780955637308
*McVeagh, Diana. "Gerald Finzi: His Life and Music" (Boydell, 2006) ISBN 1843831708External links
* [http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2002/Jun02/Joy_Finzi.htm Biography page] at [http://www.musicweb-international.com/ MusicWeb International]
* [http://www.geraldfinzi.org/ The Finzi Trust] , visit the official Finzi Trust web site to listen to Gerald Finzi's music and read about his life and the Finzi Trust's work.
* [http://www.encill.abelalways.co.uk/joyfinzi/ Joy Finzi] , read about Joy Finzi's life, her art, music, sculpture and poetry.
* [http://www.chosen-arts.org.uk/finzifriends/ Finzi Friends]
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