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Everett Burton Helm (born July 17, 1913 in Minneapolis , † June 25, 1999 in Berlin ) was an American composer , musicologist and journalist .

Life

Everett Helm, musically gifted - he was already active as a cathedral organist in Faribault at the age of 15 - initially received a humanistic and musical training at Carleton College in Northfield (Minnesota) . After Everett Helm had obtained a Bachelor of Music degree there in 1934 , he moved to Harvard University in Cambridge (Massachusetts) , where he studied composition with Walter Piston , counterpoint with Arthur Tillman Merritt, conducting with Archibald Thompson Davison and musicology Hugo Leichtentritt took up. In 1936 Everett Helm traveled to Europe and was awarded the John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship, consisting of a grant of $ 1,500 annually for two or three years abroad. There Helm first studied composition for two years with Gian Francesco Malipiero in Asolo , then with Ralph Vaughan Williams and Alfred Einstein in England , before returning to the USA in 1939 at Harvard University with the work The Beginnings of the Italian Madrigal and the Works of Arcadelt received his doctorate in musicology.

Helm, who held several teaching positions at the beginning of his professional career, was in charge of the music department at Western College in Oxford (Ohio) from 1944 to 1946 . From 1948 to 1950 he was employed as a theater and music officer in Germany, first in Stuttgart and later in Wiesbaden . He then went into business for himself as a freelance composer and music writer, interrupted only between 1961 and 1963 by the post of editor-in-chief of Musical America. Helm, who also wrote articles for the New York Times , lived in Asolo from 1963 and in Berlin for the last two years.

Act

Everett Helm's compositional work includes orchestral works, namely two piano concertos, premiered in 1951 and 1956, chamber music , songs and stage works, namely the radio opera "The siege of tottenburg" , premiered in 1956, in German "Die Siege von Tottenburg" . As a music writer, in addition to numerous magazine articles, he published studies on early Italian vocal music, 1960, as well as monographs on Béla Bartók in 1965, Franz Liszt , 1972, and Peter Tchaikovsky , 1976.

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SURNAME Helm, Everett
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Helmet, Everett Burton (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer, musicologist and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Minneapolis
DATE OF DEATH June 25, 1999
Place of death Berlin