Erik Chisholm (1904 - 1965)

Eric Chisholm (1904–1965), is now increasingly known to the public thanks to recordings that have revealed him to be the first composer to absorb Celtic idioms into his music, so much so that some nicknamed him MacBartók. An excellent pianist, Chisholm was a native of Glasgow who nonetheless travelled the world, eventually settling in South Africa after the Second World War. Always curious about the musical traditions of each country, he composed a Tango as early as 1926 in a languid but unrelenting style, within a by then supranational language, equally distant from Scotland as from Argentina.