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Drysdale Overture(1937) is Lilburn's first major orchestral work. It was written while he was a student under the aegis of Vaughan Williams at the Royal College of Music in London. The work won first prize at the New Zealand National Centennial Competition in 1940 and has more recently become established as a staple of orchestral repertoire with regular performances and recordings presented by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. This edition is the first of four volumes published in celebration of the centenary of Lilburn's birth in 1915.
Douglas Liburn occupies a pre-eminent position in New Zealand music, with a legacy extending well beyond his compositional output. As a composer, a teacher, and later as a warm, generous and encouraging background presence, he presided in innumerable ways over the artistic growth of this country. His music, from the early works redolent of the influence of Sibelius and Vaughan Williams, to the electroacoustic pieces of his later years, makes up a corpus of works that has been instrumental in establishing a genuinely vernacular voice in New Zealand classical music.
