HAMISH MACCUNN

Hamish MacCunn (1868-1916) was born in Greenock, Scotland, as James MacCunn. He composed his first piece at age five and won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music at age fifteen, becoming their youngest student. There, his teachers included Sir Hubert Parry and Sir Charles Villiers Stanford. The overture The Land of the Mountain and the Flood (1887) was his first success and is his best-known piece. Following compositions had distinct Scottish character. From 1888 to 1894 McCunn was a professor at the Royal College of Music. His first opera was Jeanie Deans (1894) an opera commissioned to be on a Scottish subject. He was a conductor with the Carl Rosa Opera Company and subsequently to other companies. He died in 1916 at age 48 from poor health, brought from a hectic life of composing, conducting and teaching, along with cancer of the throat.

All are mixed chorus; some contain divisi.

SET	TITLE	VOICING	TEXT	LISTEN
	Hark forward			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	It was a Lass		M. E. Wilkins	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	O Mistress Mine		Shakespeare	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Oh where art thou dreaming?		Thomas Moore	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Soldier, rest! thy Warfare o’er		Sir Walter Scott	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	There is a garden		Richard Alison	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing