The Proms organ. This coincided with the adoption of this lower pitch by other leading orchestras and concert series. Although the concerts gained a popular following and reputation, Newman went bankrupt in 1902, and the banker Edgar Speyer took over the expense of funding them. Wood received a knighthood in 1911. In 1914 anti-German feeling led Speyer to surrender his role, and music publishers Chappell & Co. took control of the concerts. Although Newman remained involved in artistic planning, it was Wood's name which became most closely associated with the Proms. As conductor from the first concert (which opened with Wagner's "Rienzi"
Music of Scotland in the nineteenth century Hae" by Burns. Major composers included of the national school that developed in the late nineteenth century included Alexander Mackenzie (1847–1935), William Wallace (1860–1940), Learmont Drysdale (1866–1909) and Hamish MacCunn (1868–1916). Mackenzie, who studied in Germany and Italy and mixed Scottish themes with German Romanticism, is best known for his three "Scottish Rhapsodies" (1879–80, 1911), "Pibroch" for violin and orchestra (1889) and the "Scottish Concerto" for piano (1897), all involving Scottish themes and folk melodies. Wallace's work included an overture, "In Praise of Scottish Poesie" (1894). Drysdale's work often dealt with Scottish themes, including the overture "Tam O’ Shanter" (1890),