Alexander Brott

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Alexander Brott , CM , CQ ( Joël Brod , born March 14, 1915 in Montreal ; † April 1, 2005 ibid) was a Canadian composer , conductor , violinist and music teacher .

Life

Brott received his first violin lessons from Eugene Schneider and Alfred De Sève and appeared as a soloist in a vaudeville at the age of eleven . After studying at McGill University with Maurice Onderet and Douglas Clarke , he was a student of Sascha Jacobsen , Willem Willeke , Bernard Wagenaar and Albert Stoessel from 1934 to 1939 at the Juilliard School of Music .

Before and after studying at the Juilliard School , he was a member of the Montreal Orchestra , he also appeared on concert tours and on the radio as a soloist and formed the Montreal Trio with Edmond Trudel and Jean Belland . In the late 1930s he received awards as a chamber musician and composer.

From 1939 to 1985 Brott taught violin, orchestration and composition at McGill University, and later composition and music literature. He has been composer-in-residence here since 1974 . In 1939 Brott also founded the Orchester de chambre McGill . With the CBC Trio with John Newmark and Roland Leduc he made the first complete recording of the Beethoven trios for the CBC .

With the Montreal Orchestra in 1939 Brott played the world premiere of his symphonic poem Oracle , with which he established his reputation as a composer. From 1945 to 1958 he was concertmaster, and until 1961 he was also the conductor of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. 1948–1949 he toured Europe as a violinist and conductor, where he directed numerous world premieres of works by Canadian composers; later he also toured Europe with the McGill Chamber Orchestra, which he founded in 1945 . He submitted his composition War and Peace to the last Olympic art competitions held in London in 1948 in the orchestral music category .

Since the 1950s, Brott has focused on composition and conducting. He worked worldwide as a guest conductor and for the first time performed all of Bach's Brandenburg Concerts , Handel's Concerti grossi and Ralph Vaughan Williams ' Pastorale in Canada .

After all, Brott was artistic director of the "Kingston Symphony" from 1965 to 1981, and then until 1990 of the Kingston Pops Concerts . In 1985 he founded the Montreal Young Virtuosi , an orchestra of fifteen young instrumentalists, which he handed over to his son Boris Brott in 2000 .

Brott was married to the cellist Lotte Brott . His older son Boris became known as a conductor and violinist, his younger son Denis Brott as a cellist.

Works

  • Oracle for orchestra, 1938
  • Laurentian Idyll for string orchestra, 1940
  • Characteristic Dance for violin and orchestra, 1940
  • Invocation and Dance for violin and piano, 1941
  • Suite for piano, 1941
  • Ritual for string quartet and string orchestra, 1942
  • Lullaby and Procession of Toys for string orchestra or quartet, 1943
  • War and Peace for orchestra, 1944
  • Songs of Contemplation for high voice and string orchestra, 1945
  • Concordia for orchestra, 1946
  • From Sea to Sea for orchestra, 1947
  • Berceuse for piano, 1947
  • Delightful Delusions for orchestra, 1950
  • Concerto for Violin and Lammer Orchestra, 1950
  • Critics' Corner for string quartet and percussion, 1950
  • Vignettes en caricature for piano, 1952
  • Israël for choir, 1952
  • A Royal Tribute to Queen Elizabeth II for orchestra, 1953
  • Sept for Seven for narrator, clarinet, saxophone, violin, viola, cello and piano, 1954
  • Analogy in Anagram for orchestra, 1955
  • Israël for choir and strings, 1956
  • Arabesque for cello and chamber orchestra, 1957
  • The Vision of Dry Bones for baritone and strings, 1958
  • From the Hazel Bough for medium voice and strings, 1959
  • Three Astral Visions for string orchestra, 1959
  • Spheres in orbit for orchestra, 1960
  • The Prophet for soprano, tenor and piano, 1960
  • Three Acts for Four Sinners for saxophone quartet, 1961
  • Berceuse for saxophone quartet, 1962
  • Martlet's Muse for orchestra, 1962
  • Mutual Salvation Orgy for wind quintet, 1962
  • World Sophisticate for soprano, wind quintet and percussion, 1962
  • Three on a Spree for flute, oboe and harpsichord, 1963
  • Circle, Triangle, Four Squares for string orchestra, 1963
  • Profundum praedictum for violin or cello and strings, 1964
  • Elie, Elie Lama Sabachtani for choir, 1964
  • La Corriveau , ballet, 1966
  • Paraphrase in Polyphony for orchestra, 1967
  • Centennial Cerebration for narrator, female choir and strings, 1967
  • Centennial Colloquy for wind instruments and percussion, 1967
  • Fun-Ethics-S for choir, 1968
  • The Emperor's New Clothes (after Hans Christian Andersen ) for narrator and orchestra, 1970
  • Tout de suite for cello, 1970
  • Mini-Minus for clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, trombone, violin, double bass and percussion, 1971
  • Spasms for Six for six percussionists, 1971
  • Saxi - foni - saties for saxophone quartet, 1972
  • Satie's Faction for string quartet, 1973
  • How Thunder and Lightening Came to Be (Inuit legend) for narrator, percussion, piano and chamber ensemble, 1972; for soprano, bass, speaker, children's choir and orchestra, 1973
  • Psalmody for cello, 1973
  • Indian Legends for soprano, baritone and piano, 1973
  • Songs of the Central Eskimos for soprano, baritone and piano, 1973
  • Cupid's Quandary for violin, strings and percussion, 1975
  • Evocative Provocations for cello and orchestra, 1975
  • HBS for orchestra, 1975
  • Bacchi - Annus - Handle for orchestra, 1976
  • E Dai P Milo for string orchestra, 1976
  • Shofar for cello, 1976
  • Double Entente for string quartet, 1976
  • Time's Trials Triumph for Choir, 1976
  • Trivial Trifles for strings, 1984
  • Millennium Prelude for Strings 2000
  • Millennium Sinfonietta for string orchestra and wind instruments, 2002

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Remarks

  1. Actually Aramaic אֵלִי אֵלִי לְמָה שְׁבַקְתָּנִי 'eli,' eli, lema schewaktani or ܐܹܝܠ ܐܹܝܠ ܠܡܵܢܵܐ ܫܒܲܩܬܵܢܝ 'il,' il, lmana schwaktan 'My God, my God, why did you leave me'.