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Sir John Blackwood McEwen

Reginald Grenville Eves1937

Royal College of Music

Royal College of Music
London, United Kingdom

Sir John Blackwood McEwen (1868 – 1948) was a Scottish composer and teacher. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music with Frederick Corder from 1893–5, returning as a professor of harmony and composition in 1898 and succeeding Alexander Mackenzie as principal in 1924. In 1931 he was knighted, stepping down from his position as principal in 1936. McEwen’s large-scale works include a Viola Concerto (1901), three Border Ballads (1906–8), the ‘Solway’ Symphony (1911), and the choral-orchestral Hymn on the Morning of Christ's Nativity (1901–5), but his output is dominated by the 17 string quartets he wrote between 1893 and 1947. McEwen died in 1948 at the age of eighty.

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  • Title: Sir John Blackwood McEwen
  • Creator: Reginald Grenville Eves
  • Date created: 1937
  • Provenance: Purchased, 1979
  • Type: Painting
  • Medium: Oil on canvas
Royal College of Music

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