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===1933–39: Musical development===
Finzi never felt at home in the city and, having married the artist [[Joy Finzi|Joyce Black]], settled with her in [[Aldbourne]], [[Wiltshire]], where he devoted himself to composing and apple-growing, saving a number of rare English [[apple]] varieties from extinction. He also amassed a large library of some 3000 volumes of English poetry, philosophy and literature, now kept at the [[University of Reading]] and a collection (some 700 volumes including books, manuscripts and printed scores) of 18th-century English music, now kept at the [http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/specialcollections/Rarebooks/Namedspecialcollections/FinziCollection/ University of St Andrews].
During the 1930s, Finzi composed only a few works, but it was in these, notably the [[cantata]] ''[[Dies Natalis (cantata)|Dies natalis]]'' (1939) to texts by [[Thomas Traherne]], that his fully mature style developed. He also worked on behalf of the poet-composer [[Ivor Gurney]], who had been committed to an institution. Finzi and his wife catalogued and edited Gurney's works for publication. They also studied and published English [[folk music]] and music by older English composers such as [[William Boyce (composer)|William Boyce]], [[Capel Bond]], [[John Garth (composer)|John Garth]], [[Richard Mudge]], [[John Stanley (composer)|John Stanley]] and [[Charles Wesley]].
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