Roger Sacheverell Coke

English composer and pianist Roger Sacheverell Coke explored late Romantic idioms in unique, eclectic ways; long mostly forgotten, his music has been periodically revived in the 21st century. He had a top-notch musical education but lived far from cosmopolitan influences and developed a style shaped more by the late Russian Romantics and at times by Jean Sibelius than by contemporary Continental or even English developments. Coke was prolific, although he sometimes discarded finished works. He wrote six piano concertos, more than 100 songs, three symphonies, four symphonic poems, solo piano music including a set of 24 preludes, various pieces of chamber music, and an opera, The Cenci, based on a play by Percy Bysshe Shelley.