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Arthur James Bramwell Hutchings (14 July 1906 – 13 November 1989) was an English musicologist, composer, and professor of music successively at the
Hutchings life and work with audio, documents, photos etc
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Arthur James Bramwell Hutchings (14 July 1906 – 13 November 1989) was an English musicologist, composer, and professor of music successively at the University of Durham
Durham University (legally the University of Durham) is a collegiate university, collegiate public university, public research university in Durham, England, Durham, England, founded by an Act of Parliament in 1832 and incorporated by royal charte ...
and the University of Exeter
The University of Exeter is a public university , public research university in Exeter, Devon, England, United Kingdom. Its predecessor institutions, St Luke's College, Exeter School of Science, Exeter School of Art, and the Camborne School of Min ...
. He wrote extensively on topics as varied as nineteenth-century English liturgical composition, Schubert
Franz Peter Schubert (; 31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. Despite his short lifetime, Schubert left behind a vast ''oeuvre'', including more than 600 secular vocal wor ...
, Purcell
Henry Purcell (, rare: September 1659 – 21 November 1695) was an English composer.
Purcell's style of Baroque music was uniquely English, although it incorporated Italian and French elements. Generally considered among the greatest Eng ...
, Edmund Rubbra
Edmund Rubbra (; 23 May 190114 February 1986) was a British composer. He composed both instrumental and vocal works for soloists, chamber groups and full choruses and orchestras. He was greatly esteemed by fellow musicians and was at the peak o ...
, and baroque
The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...
concertos
A concerto (; plural ''concertos'', or ''concerti'' from the Italian plural) is, from the late Baroque era, mostly understood as an instrumental composition, written for one or more soloists accompanied by an orchestra or other ensemble. The typi ...
; but his most famous book was the ''Companion to Mozart's Piano Concertos'', published in 1948 and often reissued since. Among his other books are ''The Invention and Composition of Music'' and ''Church Music in the Nineteenth Century''. During the late 1970s his articles on music regularly appeared in the monthly magazine ''Records and Recording
Hansom Books was a British publisher founded in 1950 by Philip Dosse to produce the magazine ''Dance and Dancers''. Magazines in a similar format were then founded to cover other arts, so forming the Seven Arts Group. The other titles were ''Art ...
''. His compositions include the ''Seasonal Preludes'' for organ, the overture ''Oriana Triumphans'', the opera ''Marriage à la Mode'', and the operetta ''The Plumber's Arms''. Among his choral works are ''Hosanna to the Son of David'', ''God is Gone Up'', ''Grant Them Rest'', and the ''Communion Service on Russian Themes''.
Hutchings served for many years as a director of the English Hymnal
''The English Hymnal'' is a hymn book which was published in 1906 for the Church of England by Oxford University Press. It was edited by the clergyman and writer Percy Dearmer and the composer and music historian Ralph Vaughan Williams, and wa ...
Company and three of his tunes were included in the 1986 New English Hymnal
''The New English Hymnal'' is a hymn book and liturgical source aimed towards the Church of England. First published in 1986, it is a successor to, and published in the same style as, the 1906 ''English Hymnal''. It is published today by SCM C ...
.
See also
*Durham University Department of Music
The Department of Music is the music school of the University of Durham.
It is one of the leading university music departments in the UK.Sunday Times University League Table The Department of Music offers undergraduate and postgraduate courses ...
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Hutchings life and work with audio, documents, photos etc
1906 births 1989 deaths English composers English music historians British music educators Academics of Durham University Mozart scholars 20th-century English historians 20th-century classical musicians 20th-century British composers 20th-century English musicians 20th-century British musicologists {{UK-composer-stub