Philip Heseltine (October 30, 1894 to December 17, 1930) is remembered as a British composer. Here is how the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography summarizes his artistic contributions:
Heseltine's compositions include more than 100 songs, mostly with piano accompaniment, though some have instrumental accompaniment, notably his acknowledged masterpiece The Curlew (1915–22), a song-cycle of poems by Yeats for tenor, flute, cor anglais, and string quartet. It is a work which shows the influence of Bartók, whose music he was championing at the time. Other instrumental works include An Old Song (1917–23), a serenade for string orchestra (1921–2), and the popular Capriol (1927). He also composed a number of short choral works. His scholarly output includes a large collection of Elizabethan and Jacobean vocal solo, choral, and instrumental transcriptions as well as an edition of Henry Purcell's string fantasias. He was also the author of a number of books, including Frederick Delius (1923), The English Ayre (1926), and, together with Cecil Gray, Carlo Gesualdo: Musician and Murderer (1926).
Heseltine is remembered also for a "wild, bohemian" lifestyle; both D. H. Lawrence and Aldous Huxley based characters upon Heseltine. His fondness for cats was striking enough to earn a note in the ODNB article.
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