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Hans Werner Henze dead at age 86
Hans Werner Henze, a prolific German composer who came of age in the Nazi era and grew estranged from his country while gaining renown for richly imaginative operas and orchestral works, died on Saturday, 27 October 2012, in Dresden, Germany, where he was due to attend the premiere that evening of a ballet set to one of his scores. He was 86.
NYTimes | Wikipedia
Hans Werner Henze (1 July 1926 – 27 October 2012) was a German composer of prodigious output best known for "his consistent cultivation of music for the theatre throughout his life".His music is extremely varied in style, having been influenced by serialism, atonality, Stravinsky, Italian music, Arabic music and jazz, as well as traditional schools of German composition.
Gustav Holst birthday September 21, 1874
Gustav Theodore Holst (born Gustavus Theodore von Holst, 21 September 1874 – 25 May 1934) was an English composer. He is most famous for his orchestral suite The Planets.
His early works show the influence of Grieg, Wagner, Richard Strauss and fellow student Ralph Vaughan Williams, and later, through Vaughan Williams, the music of Ravel. The combined influence of Ravel, Hindu spiritualism and English folk tunes enabled Holst to free himself of the influence of Wagner and Strauss and to forge his own style. Holst's music is well known for unconventional use of metre and haunting melodies.
Holst composed almost 200 works, including operas, ballets, choral hymns and songs. An enthusiastic educator, Holst became music master at St Paul's Girls' School in 1905 and director of music at Morley College in 1907, continuing in both posts until retirement.
He was the brother of Hollywood actor Ernest Cossart and father of the composer and conductor Imogen Holst, who wrote a biography of him in 1938.
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His early works show the influence of Grieg, Wagner, Richard Strauss and fellow student Ralph Vaughan Williams, and later, through Vaughan Williams, the music of Ravel. The combined influence of Ravel, Hindu spiritualism and English folk tunes enabled Holst to free himself of the influence of Wagner and Strauss and to forge his own style. Holst's music is well known for unconventional use of metre and haunting melodies.
Holst composed almost 200 works, including operas, ballets, choral hymns and songs. An enthusiastic educator, Holst became music master at St Paul's Girls' School in 1905 and director of music at Morley College in 1907, continuing in both posts until retirement.
He was the brother of Hollywood actor Ernest Cossart and father of the composer and conductor Imogen Holst, who wrote a biography of him in 1938.
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Imogen Holst
Imogen Claire Holst, CBE (12 April 1907 – 9 March 1984) was a British composer and conductor, and sole child of composer Gustav Holst. Imogen Holst was brought up in west London and educated at St Paul's Girls' School, where her father was director of music. She worked with Herbert Howells before entering the Royal College of Music (RCM) in 1926 to study composition with George Dyson and Gordon Jacob, harmony and counterpoint with Ralph Vaughan Williams, and conducting with William H. Reed. She won several prizes for composition including the Cobbett Prize for a string quartet (1928). In 1931 Holst began earning her living as a freelance musician, though her hopes of being a concert pianist were dashed by incipient phlebitis in her left arm.
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Classical Composers ~ H
HANDEL, G. F. (jorg FREE drik HAN dul)(23 FEB -1685 - 1759)
Ger-Eng
- HREF="http://infopuq.uquebec.ca/~uss1010/catal/handel/hangf.html">Works
List
Handel 101- G.
F. Handel Home Page- G.
1981)NEB-AM=C=COMP
- Teacher-Dir, Eastman School
- Northwestern University
In Memoriam Howard Hanson: Future of of Musical Education in America
by Donald J. Shetler (Editor)- The Hanson/Zanuck connection [Both born in Wahoo, Nebraska]
H. ( - )
1900)Ger=com-organist
Sir Hamilton (4 DEC - )Ir
Franz Joseph(HY din) (31 MAR 1732 - 1809)Austrian
- HREF="http://www.angelfire.com/biz/musiclassical/haydn.html"> Selected
Works
HREF="http://home.wxs.nl/~cmr/haydn">Haydn Web
pageNetherlands
Haydn Classics World Bio
Michael (MEE kah el)(1737 - 1806)
)Eng
Hebenstreit, Michael
Hegdal, Magne
Johann David (YOH' han DAH' veed HY' neh kin) (1683 - 1729)
1 APR 1721-d. Cambridge, 19 APR 1799)
Dutch-English=Com-V-Organist, Dutch violinist;
organist at King's Lynn, Norfolk, 1760-62
(Hahntz VER' ner HEN' zah) (1 JUL 1926 - )Ger
scores)
(pawl HIN' dah mit) (16 NOV 1895 - 28 DEC 1963) Ger=Com-Violist
Gustav (GOO' staf HOL'st) ( 21 SEP 1874 - 1934)Eng
- ON CD: Holst: The Planets, Matthews: Pluto
Holst
Museum Cheltingham, Eng
Holst: 'The
Planets'
Gustav Holst Page
Taylor's G Holst page
James ( - )
HOROWITZ, Richard ( - )
HOVHANESS, Alan (Chakakjian) (ho VAHN' ess) (Somerville, MA 8 MAR 1911 - Seattle, WA 21 JUN 2000)
Johann Nepomuk (YO' han NEP' ul mook HOO' mul) (1778 - 1837)Ger
Humpert, Hans I
HUSS, Henry Holden ( Newark, NJ 21 JUN 1862 - NYC, 17 SEP 1953 )Am=P & Comp.
( Adelaide, 1913 - )Australian = Comp
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