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2 unusual facts about Ernest Farrar


Ernest Farrar

A Requiem Mass was said at Micklefield, on 29 September, the Feast of St. Michael and All Angels.

Farrar was killed on the Western Front at the Battle of Epehy Ronssoy, near Le Cateau in the Somme Valley south, west of Cambrai, in 1918.


The Blessed Damozel

Several pieces of music were based on the poem, including those for orchestra by Granville Bantock (1891), Edgar Bainton (1907), Ernest Farrar (1907); for piano by Arnold Bax (1906); for string quartet by Benjamin Burrows (1927); and a 1928 choral by Julius Harrison.


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