Hamilton Harty

Musical Polymath
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-84383-858-6
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 390 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1000 g

Reihe: Music in Britain, 1600-2000

An in-depth study of the life of Sir Hamilton Harty (1879-1941), pianist, composer and conductor of the Hallé Orchestra, who arguably made Manchester the most important focus for music in Britain in his day.

Sir Hamilton Harty (1879-1941) is best known as the conductor of the Hallé Orchestra, who arguably made Manchester the most important focus for music in Britain in his day. This book chronicles and analyses Harty's illustrious career, from his establishment as London's premiere accompanist in 1901 to his years as a conductor between 1910 and 1933, first with the LSO and then with the Hallé, to his American tours of the 1930s. Tragically, Harty died from cancer in 1941 at the age of only 61.
This book also looks at Harty's life as a composer of orchestral and chamber works and songs, notably before the First World War. Although Harty's music cleaved strongly to a late nineteenth-century musical language, he was profoundly influenced during his days in Ulster and Dublin by the Irish literary revival. A great exponent of Mozart and especially Berlioz, Harty was also a keen exponent of British music and an active supporter of American composers such as Gershwin.
Harty's role in the exposition of standard and new repertoire and his relationship with contemporary composers and performers are also examined, against the perspective of other important major British conductors such as Sir Thomas Beecham, Malcolm Sargent and Sir Henry Wood. Additionally, the book analyses the debates Harty provoked on the subjects of women orchestral players, jazz, modernism, and the music of Berlioz.

JEREMY DIBBLE is Professor of Music at Durham University and author of John Stainer: A Life in Music(The Boydell Press, 2007) and monographs on C. Hubert H. Parry, Charles Villiers Stanford and Michele Esposito.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dibble, Jeremy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik Geschichte der Musik: Klassische Musik des 20./21. Jahrhunderts
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Einzelne Komponisten und Musiker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Hillsborough, Belfast and Dublin - A Musical Apprenticeship - 1879-1901
London (1) 1901-1909: A Pre-eminent 'Collaborator' and Aspiring Composer
London (2) 1909-1914: Composer and Conductor
The War Years and After - 1914-1920
The Hallé Years - 1920-1927
Apogee: From Hallé to the LSO - 1927-33
America and Australia: An Unforeseen Romance - 1933-1936
The Last Years: The Children of Lir - A Creative Codicil - 1933-41
Bibliography
Appendix One: List of Works
Appendix Two: List of Recordings

Über Autor(innen)

Dibble, Jeremy
JEREMY DIBBLE is an Emeritus Professor of Music at Durham University where he taught for 30 years. He is the author of C. Hubert H. Parry: His Life and Music (1998), Charles Villers Stanford: Man and Musician (original edition, 2002), Michele Esposito (2010). With the Boydell Press, Dibble has published John Stainer: A Life in Music (2007), Hamilton Harty: Musical Polymath (2013), British Musical Criticism and Intellectual Thought, 1850-1950 (2018) (with Julian Horton) and The Music of Frederick Delius (2021).

JEREMY DIBBLE is Professor of Music at Durham University.