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'''The Fires of London''', first formed in 1965 as the '''Pierrot Players''', was a{{short description|British [[chamber orchestra|chamber music ensemble]] which was active from (1965 to -1987.)}}
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'''The Fires of London''', founded as the '''Pierrot Players''', was a British [[chamber orchestra|chamber music ensemble]] which was active from 1965 to 1987.
 
ItThe wasPierrot dedicated to the performance of [[contemporary classical music|new music]]. ItPlayers was founded in [[London]] by [[Harrison Birtwistle]], [[Alan Ray Hacker]], and [[Stephen Pruslin]].<ref name="WW">''Who’s Who 1975'', page 1302, (A&C Black: London)</ref> From 1967 it was under the joint direction of theBirtwistle composersand [[Peter Maxwell Davies]] and [[Harrison Birtwistle]], and was an English [[chamber music|chamber ensemble]]. The ensemble was originally created in orderformed to play [[Arnold Schoenberg|Schoenberg]]'s ''[[Pierrot Lunaire]]'', scoredand fornew [[soprano]]works, [[flute]], [[clarinet]], [[violin]], [[cello]], and [[piano]]. A percussionist would often joinwith thea group.theatrical Inelement, 1970for Birtwistlea leftsimilar thescoring group,(usually and underwith the newaddition nameof Davies became sole directorpercussion). The group were disbanded by Davies after a 20th anniversary concert in 1987.
The instrumentation proved to be too limited for Birtwistle and he left in 1970. Maxwell Davies took over as sole director, renaming the group the Fires of London. It was disbanded after its 20th anniversary concert in 1987. Maxwell Davies subsequently endorsed a new group [[Psappha (ensemble)|Psappha]], based in Manchester.
 
During theirits existence, Thethe Fires of London was particularly associated with Maxwell Davies' music, and gave first performances of many of his works, including ''[[Eight Songs for a Mad King]]'', ''Vesalii Icones'', ''[[The Martyrdom of St Magnus]]'', ''[[Ave Maris Stella]]'' and ''Revelation and Fall''. However it didalso premierepremiered works by other composers, including [[Elliott Carter]]'s ''Triple Duo'', Birtwistle's Cantata, ''I Met Heine on the 1971Rue Fürstenberg'' and ''The Viola in My Life 1'' by [[Morton Feldman]], ''Ocean de Terre'' by [[Oliver Knussen]], "show"and ''[[Der langwierige Weg in die Wohnung der Natascha Ungeheuer]]'' by [[Hans Werner Henze]].
 
The group collaborated with the [[Early Music Consort of London]] on the soundtrack for the film [[The Devils (film)|''The Devils'']].
The Fires of London was just one of many ensembles created to play ''[[Pierrot Lunaire]]'', and the presence of these ensembles led to many new works being written for the same instrumentation. This in turn led to the formation of yet more groups, leading to the establishment of the "[[Pierrot ensemble]]" (flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano) as a standard instrumentation in contemporary music.▼
 
==Instrumentation and players==
Maxwell Davies described the basic instrumentation as flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, keyboards, percussion.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.maxopus.com/work_detail.aspx?key=255 | title=The Devils | work=maxopus.com | accessdate=21 March 2016 | archive-date=3 April 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160403112725/http://www.maxopus.com/work_detail.aspx?key=255 | url-status=dead }}</ref>
Principal players in the formative years included Judith Pearce (flute), Alan Hacker (clarinet), [[Duncan Druce]] (violin), [[Jennifer Ward Clarke]] (cello) and Stephen Pruslin (piano).
 
▲The Fires of London was just one of many ensembles created to play ''[[Pierrot Lunaire]]'', and the presence of these ensembles led to many new works being written for the same instrumentation. This in turn led to the formation of yet more groups, leading to the establishment of the "[[Pierrot ensemble]]" (flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano) as a standard instrumentation in contemporary music.
 
==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.maxopus.com/organisa/fires.htm The Fires of London]
 
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