Clive Douglas

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Clive Martin Douglas (born July 27, 1903 in Rushworth , Victoria , Australia , † April 29, 1977 in Brighton , Melbourne ) was an Australian composer , musician and conductor .

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Clive Douglas was the son of the police constable Rolland Edward Ellerman Douglas and his wife, the pianist Annie Amelia Ellen nee. Martin. His father died in service in 1906. Clive Douglas lived for some time with his grandparents in Ballarat and in Geelong and later with his mother and stepfather. He attended the public school in Rushworth and the high school in Coburg . From 1918 he worked for the State Savings Bank of Victoria. In 1926 he married Isabel Knox in Melbourne; the marriage was divorced in 1935.

Clive Douglas received his first musical training from his mother, later he studied violin with Franz Schieblich as well as music theory and instrumentation with Alberto Zelman and worked as a violinist and conductor in theater orchestras and community orchestras. From 1927 he made his first attempts at composition and from 1929 was able to study composition with Arthur Ernest Howard Nickson and Bernard Heinze at the Melbourne University Conservatory with a grant from the Ormond Exhibition . In 1934 he graduated with a Bachelor of Music . For the works Symphony in D major and The Hound of Heaven , a symphonic poem based on Francis Thompson , he received special prizes in the composition competition of the Australian Broadcasting Commission in 1933. In 1935 he received the shared first prize for the operetta Ashmadai . While performing Ashmadai , he met the soprano Marjorie Eloise Ellis, whom he married in 1936 in the Malvern neighborhood of Stonnington City . In 1944 their daughter Lynne Gavin Douglas was born.

In 1936 he quit his employment with the State Savings Bank of Victoria. From 1936 to 1941 he was the conductor of the Tasmanian Orchestra of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation . Inspired by Aboriginal folklore , he wrote the Bush Legend in 1938 and - several years before John Antill - the ballet interlude Corroboree , which were later summarized and reworked as Kaditcha . From 1941 to 1947 he was the conductor of the Brisbane Symphony Orchestra of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. In 1943, his lyric drama Eleanor, Maid Rosamund, and Henry of Anjou premiered, for which he also wrote the libretto .

From 1947 to 1953 Clive Douglas was assistant to Eugène Aynsley Goossens with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra . During this time he also began to write compositions for short and documentary films for the Commonwealth Film Unit (now Film Australia). In 1951 he composed music for the film Wherever She Goes about the pianist Eileen Joyce and in 1954 together with Charles Mackerras , Joseph Post and Robert Hughes for the documentary The Queen in Australia , the first Australian color film. From 1953 to 1956 he was Bernard Heinze's assistant at the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.

Clive Douglas received the title Doctor of Music for his work Kaditcha in 1958 . From 1959 to 1968 he taught at Melbourne University Conservatory. In 1963 he was elected a Life Fellow of the International Institute of Arts and Letters. In the late 1960s he finished his work for the Australian Broadcasting Commission. When traveling through Europe was committed to promoting Australian music.

Clive Douglas died on April 29, 1977 in Brighton and was cremated. George Dreyfus composed the piece You're remember'd well, Clive Douglas for brass ensemble in 1998 ! Clive Douglas's daughter Lynne Gavin Douglas published the biography The golden age in 2011 . Clive Douglas - composer, conductor.

literature

  • Gregg W. Howard: Clive Douglas. In: Frank Callaway, David Tunley (Eds.): Australian Composition in the Twentieth Century. Oxford University Press, Melbourne 1978, ISBN 0-19-550522-0 , pp. 38-43.
  • Lynne Gavin Douglas: The golden age. Clive Douglas - composer, conductor. Wirripang, Wollongong 2011, ISBN 978-1-876829-21-6 ( review by RJ Stove).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Clive Douglas and the Search for the Australian Symphony. P. 3 (PDF; 186 kB)
  2. ^ The Age from Melbourne, Victoria. November 25, 1933, p. 23 ( OCR text online )
  3. ↑ Stephen Pleskun (Ed.): A Chronological History of Australian Composers and Their Compositions. Volume 1: 1901-1954. Xlibris, Bloomington 2012, ISBN 978-1-4653-8226-9 , p. 508 ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  4. ↑ Lynne Gavin Douglas on thepeerage.com , accessed September 18, 2016.
  5. ↑ a b Kaditcha: Corroboree ( Memento from August 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on abc.net.au
  6. ^ Margaret Ross Griffel: Operas in English: A Dictionary. Scarecrow, Lanham 2012, ISBN 978-0-8108-8325-3 , p. 146 ( limited preview in Google book search)
  7. ↑ Wherever She Goes. In: John Howard Reid: These Movies Won No Hollywood Awards. Reid, Morrisville 2006, ISBN 1-4116-5846-9 , p. 178 ( limited preview in Google book search)
  8. ↑ The Queen in Australia on aso.gov.au
  9. ^ The Queen in Australia in the IMDb
  10. ↑ You're remember'd well, Clive Douglas! at australianmusiccentre.com.au
  11. ↑ Dreyfus, George ( Memento from April 21, 2016 in the web archive archive.today ) on aroundlife.cn
  12. ↑ Clive Douglas - a new biography on australianmusiccentre.com.au
personal data
SURNAME Douglas, Clive
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Douglas, Clive Martin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian composer, musician and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Rushworth , Victoria , Australia
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 1977
Place of death Brighton , Melbourne