Imogen Holst: A Life in Music

Revised Edition
Revised Auflage
ISBN: 978-1-84383-599-8
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 522 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 1167 g

Reihe: Aldeburgh Studies in Music

This paperback edition is updated to include new insights into Holst's life and work resulting from the discovery of important unseen archival materials.

Imogen Holst was one of the most wide-ranging and highly regarded of musicians. Popular with all who knew her, she was intensively protective of her inner life, reminding one friend of a 'locked door of which she had thrown away the key'.
Imogen Holst: A Life in Music uses a wealth of newly discovered material to explore the complexities and contradictions of her life and career, drawing on her own writings - ranging from heartfelt early poetry, through correspondence, to a series of journals that maintain a colourful record of her travels and achievements. Most revealing of these is the daily journal that she kept at the start of her working association with Britten, adocument that provides a unique insight both into her own thoughts, and into the professional and domestic life of a major composer.
Extensively revised with new material, the book also includes a study of Imogen Holst's music and a chronological list of her works, revealing her as a composer of tremendous talent, whose music deserves to be much more familiar.

CHRISTOPHER GROGAN is Director of Collections and Heritage at the Britten-Pears Foundation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grogan, Christopher

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik Geschichte der Musik: Klassische Musik des 20./21. Jahrhunderts
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Einzelne Komponisten und Musiker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword
'She do favour 'er Pa': Infancy and early schooldays, 1907-20
'Corn-coloured pigtails and very blue eyes': St Paul's Girls' School, 1921-6
'To be best when all are good': The Royal College of Music, 1926-30
'Wandering about Europe', 1930-31
'Life is not going to be too easy for you': London and elsewhere, 1931-8
'A present from the Government': Travelling with CEMA, 1939-42
'A wonderful opportunity': Dartington, 1942-50
'She is quite brilliant': India to Aldeburgh, 1950-52
'The excitement of working with Ben': an introduction to the Aldeburgh Diary
Aldeburgh Diary, September 1952-March 1954
'The thing that one wants to do most in the whole world', 1955-64
'The joy of learning about Holst via Britten', 1964-76
'Old age - Protest against disintegration - Gradual calming down - Acceptance', 1977-84
'A real composer': an introduction to Imogen Holst's musical style
Chronological list of works