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James And Constance Alsop Professor Of Music
The James and Constance Alsop Professorship of Music at the University of Liverpool was established in 1946; prior to that time, music teaching had been confined to the Department of Education but the new chair marked an attempt to "coordinate the study of music within the University and stimulate interest by lectures and other appropriate instruction". The first holder was Gerald Abraham, who had been director of the BBC's Gramophone Department. The chair was named for Alderman James W. Alsop, OBE, a major figure in the university's establishment and early administration. The chair replaced the James W. Alsop Lectureship, which had been established by Alsop's widow Constance in 1924; she endowed it with the sum of £3,000. Appointments were made for a year "it having been decided at present y 1928to invite each year a distinguished musician to deliver a course of public lectures on Music".The University of Liverpool Calendar 1928-29 (1928), p. 445. The lectureship was suspende ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Liverpool
, mottoeng = These days of peace foster learning , established = 1881 – University College Liverpool1884 – affiliated to the federal Victoria Universityhttp://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/2004/4 University of Manchester Act 2004. legislation.gov.uk (4 July 2011). Retrieved on 14 September 2011.1903 – royal charter , type = Public , endowment = £190.2 million (2020) , budget = £597.4 million (2020–21) , city = Liverpool , country = England , campus = Urban , coor = , chancellor = Colm Tóibín , vice_chancellor = Dame Janet Beer , head_label = Visitor , head = The Lord President of the Council '' ex officio'' , students = () , undergrad = () , postgrad = () , colours = The University , affiliations = Russell Group, EUA, N8 Group, NWUA, AACSB, AMBA, EQUIS, EASN, Universities UK , website = , logo = Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmund Fellowes
Edmund Horace Fellowes (11 November 1870 – 21 December 1951), was a Church of England clergyman and musical scholar who became well known for his work in promoting the revival of sixteenth and seventeenth century English music. Life and work Fellowes was born in Paddington, London, on 11 November 1870, the fifth child of Horace Decimus Fellowes, assistant director of the Royal Army Clothing Depot, and his wife Louisa Emily, daughter of Edmund Packe, a captain in the Royal Horse Guards. Fellowes showed musical ability at an early age and in 1878 received an offer from Joseph Joachim to become his violin pupil; the offer was not taken up and Fellowes went to Winchester College. He studied as an undergraduate at Oriel College, Oxford, from 1889 to 1892, taking a fourth class in theology and becoming a Bachelor of Music and Master of Arts in 1896. Fellowes became an ordained deacon in 1894 and priest in 1895, and held a curacy in Wandsworth, after which he became precentor of Bri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anahid Kassabian
Anahit or Anahid is goddess of fertility and healing, wisdom and water in Iranian and Armenian mythology. Anahit or Anahid may also refer to: * ''Anahit'' (1947 film), directed by Hamo Beknazarian * ''Anahit'' (2014 film), animated, directed by Davit Sahakyants * Anahit (name) * Anahita or Anahit, a Persian goddess * ''Anahid'', a supplement of the Lebanese-Armenian daily '' Aztag'' See also * Anahid Literary Prize, an Armenian literary prize, awarded to Arthur Nersesian in 2005 * Anahidrano, a town and commune in Madagascar * "Anahid's Musings Op. 147", a 2006 work for two pianos and percussion by Dianne Goolkasian Rahbee Dianne Goolkasian Rahbee (born February 9, 1938) is an Armenian-American contemporary classical composer and pedagogue. Biography Rahbee was born and raised in Waltham Massachusetts. Her father, Peter Aharon Goolkasian, was a survivor of the ... * Anahita, disambiguation {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Owen Talbot
Michael Owen Talbot, (born 4 January 1943 in Luton) is a British musicologist and composer. Talbot is a former Professor of Music at the University of Liverpool. An expert in Italian baroque music, Talbot has authored monographs on Antonio Vivaldi and Tommaso Albinoni, and is an editor of the scholarly journal "Studi Vivaldiani". He is also active as a historicist composer, and a member of the "Vox Saeculorum ''Vox Sæculorum'' is an international society of contemporary composers writing in the Baroque style established in 2006. Vox Sæculorum was the primary focus of a feature-length article on period baroque composition written by Grant Colburn and pu ..." society. Talbot's expertise has been called upon in instances where the authenticity and/or provenance of works has been questioned, including the discovery of the possible Vivaldi work ''Andromeda Liberata''. Works * Antonio Vivaldi The Manchester Violin Sonatas(A-R Editions 1976) ISBN 0-89579-072-6 * Vivaldi's 'Man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerald Ernest Heal Abraham
Gerald Ernest Heal Abraham, (9 March 1904 – 18 March 1988) was an History of the Jews in England, English-Jewish musicologist, editor and music critic. He was particularly respected as an authority on Russian music. Early career and author Abraham was born at Newport, Isle of Wight, and initially trained for a naval career in nearby Portsmouth until ill-health forced a change of direction. He was largely self-taught in piano, music theory and history, aside for some practical orchestration experience with military bands and a year's study in Cologne, where he learned German and listened to much music. In 1927, aged just 23 he published his first music book, a study of Alexander Borodin, though he later disowned it.David Lloyd-Jones (conductor), David Lloyd Jones. 'Abraham, Gerald (Ernest Heal)' in ''Grove Music Online'' (2001) There followed contributions to music periodicals and monographs on Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche (1933), Leo Tolstoy, Tolstoy (1935), and Fyodor D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Coates (musician)
Albert Coates (23 April 1882 – 11 December 1953) was an English conductor and composer. Born in Saint Petersburg, where his English father was a successful businessman, he studied in Russia, England and Germany, before beginning his career as a conductor in a series of German opera houses. He was a success in England conducting Wagner at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in 1914, and in 1919 was appointed chief conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra. His strengths as a conductor lay in opera and the Russian repertory, but he was not thought as impressive in the core Austro-German symphonic repertory. After 1923 he failed to secure a permanent conductorship in the UK, and for much of the rest of his life guest-conducted in continental Europe and the US. In his last years he conducted in South Africa, where he died at 71. As a composer, Coates is little remembered, but he composed seven operas, one of which, ''Pickwick'', was performed at Covent Garden and was the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Tovey
Sir Donald Francis Tovey (17 July 187510 July 1940) was a British musical analyst, musicologist, writer on music, composer, conductor and pianist. He had been best known for his ''Essays in Musical Analysis'' and his editions of works by Bach and Beethoven, but since the 1990s his compositions (relatively small in number but substantial in musical content) have been recorded and performed with increasing frequency. The recordings have mostly been well received by reviewers. Life He was born at Eton, Berkshire, the son of Duncan Crookes Tovey, an assistant master at Eton College, and his wife, Mary Fison. As a child Tovey was privately educated exclusively by Sophie Weisse. She was impressed by his musical gifts evident at an early age and took it upon herself to nurture him. Through her network of associates he was introduced to composers, performers and music critics. These included Walter Parratt, James Higgs and (from the age of 14) Hubert Parry for composition. Also in Sop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley Marchant
Sir Stanley Marchant CVO (15 May 1883 – 28 February 1949) was an English church musician, teacher and composer. After more than 30 years as a church and cathedral organist he was appointed principal of the Royal Academy of Music (RAM), and was professor of music at the University of London. Life and career Marchant was born in London. He had a good singing voice as a child and as a choirboy he decided to devote his life to music."Obituary: Sir Stanley Marchant", ''The Times'', 1 March 1949, p. 6 He won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music (RAM), where he won prizes for composition and organ playing.Colles, H.C. and John Scott"Marchant, Sir Stanley"''Grove Music Online'', Oxford University Press. Retrieved 13 November 2017. From 1899 to 1936 Marchant was a church and cathedral organist, working successively at Kemsing Parish Church, Kent; Christ Church, Newgate Street, London (from 1903), and St Peter's, Eaton Square ( from 1913). In 1903 he was appointed sub-orga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Toye
John Francis Toye (27 January 1883 – 13 October 1964) was an English music critic, teacher, writer and educational administrator. After early efforts as a composer and novelist, and service in naval intelligence in World War I, he became music critic of ''The Morning Post'' from 1925 to 1937, which he combined with teaching singing and working as managing director of the Restaurant Boulestin in London. In 1939 Toye was appointed director of the British Institute of Florence, but the outbreak of World War II forced him to leave Italy in 1940. During the war, he served as director of the Sociedade Brasileira de Cultura Inglesa, Rio de Janeiro. Toye returned to the institute in Florence in 1946. He retired in 1958 but continued to live in Florence for the rest of his life. Toye published novels, a play, autobiographies, essays and some works of music, but the book generally regarded as his most important was '' Giuseppe Verdi: His Life and Music'', published in 1931, which rem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest Newman
Ernest Newman (30 November 1868 – 7 July 1959) was an English music critic and musicologist. ''Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians'' describes him as "the most celebrated British music critic in the first half of the 20th century." His style of criticism, aiming at intellectual objectivity in contrast to the more subjective approach of other critics, such as Neville Cardus, was reflected in his books on Richard Wagner, Hugo Wolf, Richard Strauss and others. He was music critic of ''The Sunday Times'' from 1920 until his death nearly forty years later. His other positions included chief music critic of ''The Birmingham Post'' from 1906 to 1919, as well as brief stints as the chief music critic for ''The Guardian'' (1905–1906) and ''The Observer'' (1919). Biography Early years Newman was born William Roberts in Everton, a district of Liverpool, the only child of Seth Roberts, a Welsh tailor, and his second wife Harriet, ''née'' Spark, both of whom had children by their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Shaw (composer)
Geoffrey Turton Shaw (14 November 1879 – 14 April 1943) was an English composer and musician specialising in Anglican church music. After Cambridge, where he was an organ scholar, he became a schoolmaster, then a schools inspector, while producing a stream of compositions, arrangements, and published collections of music. He was awarded the Lambeth degree of Doctor of Music. Shaw worked with his brother Martin Shaw, also a composer, while his son Sebastian was a Shakespearean actor who is remembered for the ''Star Wars'' role of Anakin Skywalker. Early life Born at Clapham, South London, in 1879,The Enchiridion Biographical Notes (St. – Shaw) at canamus.org, accessed 9 January 2009 Shaw was the son of James Fallas Shaw, a composer of church music and organist of [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamilton Harty
Sir Herbert Hamilton Harty (4 December 1879 – 19 February 1941) was an Irish composer, conductor, pianist and organist. After an early career as a church organist in his native Ireland, Harty moved to London at about age 20, soon becoming a well-known piano accompanist. ''The Musical Times'' called him "the prince of accompanists". As a composer he wrote throughout his career, many of his works being well received, though few are regularly performed in the 21st century. In his career as a conductor, which began in 1904, Harty was particularly noted as an interpreter of the music of Berlioz. From 1920 to 1933 he was the chief conductor of the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester, which he returned to the high standards and critical acclaim that it had enjoyed under its founder, Charles Hallé. His last permanent post was with the London Symphony Orchestra, but it lasted only two years, from 1932 to 1934. During his conducting career, Harty made some recordings with his orchestras. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
