Anderson Tyrer
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Anderson Tyrer (17 November 1893 – 1962) was an English concert pianist, composer and first conductor of New Zealand's National Orchestra.
Tyrer was born in Accrington, Lancashire in 1893 and studied at the Royal Manchester College of Music.[1] He won a scholarship of four years from the County Council.[citation needed] He served in the Army in 1914 to 1918.[citation needed]
He made his debut at a Promenade concert under Thomas Beecham in 1919, playing the Rachmaninoff second concerto. Over the next four years he gave a series of orchestral concerts in the Queen's Hall, London, playing concerti by Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, Grieg, Tchaikovsky, Arensky, Liszt and Mackenzie. He also played the piano part in Scriabin's Prometheus several times.[citation needed]
In around 1922 Tyrer made some gramophone records with Adrian Boult and the British Symphony Orchestra for the Velvet Face (V-F) label, a department of Edison Bell Records; the recordings included Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat and Franck's Symphonic Variations. See also British Symphony Orchestra discography.
He toured Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.[1] In 1933 he emigrated to New Zealand.[2]
He conducted the Wellington Symphony Orchestra.[1] In 1940 he became conductor of the New Zealand Centennial Music Festival Orchestra which played concerts in several cities between May and June.[1][3] He was the founding conductor of the New Zealand National Orchestra, now the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, from 1946 to 1950.[1] He was also a music examiner.[1][4]
His composing style was English and of the first half of the 20th century.[1] He wrote symphonic works, a piano concerto, piano pieces and songs.[1]
Selected works
- Dr Faustus (1940) - symphonic setting for chorus and orchestra based on Marlowe's poem
- Nocturne and Soliloquy
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h Thomson, John Mansfield (1990). Biographical dictionary of New Zealand composers. Wellington [N.Z.]: Victoria University Press. p. 139. ISBN 0-86473-095-0. OCLC 22895790.
- ^ Thomson, John Mansfield (1991). The Oxford history of New Zealand music. Auckland, N.Z.: Oxford University Press. p. 143. ISBN 0-19-558176-8. OCLC 26724223.
- ^ Walls, Peter (2014). "The first professional orchestras". teara.govt.nz. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Personal Notes". Inangahua Times. 2 February 1934. p. 2. Retrieved 27 August 2021.
Sources
- Arthur Eaglefield Hull, A Dictionary of Modern Music and Musicians (Dent, London 1924).
- Joy Tonks, "The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, The First Forty Years" (Reed Methuen, Auckland, 1986)
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