Cyril Scott

Cyril Meir Scott (September 27, 1879 - December 31, 1970) was a British composer, pianist, poet, and writer linked to Theosophy and associated strains of esotericism. Scott was credited with the authorship of an extensive selection of music, including operas (both composition and libretti), symphonies, orchestral, chamber, choral, and concertante works, as well as several books, collections of poetry, and pamphlets. His musical contributions have been favourably compared with Edvard Grieg and Claude Debussy by some few critics &mdash; Debussy himself said Scott was "one of the rarest artists of the present generation" while conductor Eugene Goossens once called Scott the "father of British modern music" &mdash; but such favour was not widely shared, and Scott's corpus has become an outlier, existing largely on the fringe of musical scholarship, and primarily represented in performance and recording by some few of his piano concertos.