John W. Duarte

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

John William Duarte (born October 2, 1919 in Sheffield , † December 23, 2004 in Manchester ) was an English guitarist , composer , music teacher and music critic .

Duarte studied at Manchester Central High School from 1931 to 1935 and at the Faculty of Technology at Manchester University from 1936 to 1940 and worked as a chemist until 1969, after which he ran a tobacco shop for three years. His only formal music education consisted in lessons for jazz guitar with Terence Usher (1934-1936). Until 1953 he performed as a jazz guitarist, also a trumpeter and double bass player.

From 1974 to 1993 Duarte served as director of the Cannington International Guitar Summer School and Festival , then for two years as director of the Bath International Guitar Festival . From 1996 he taught at the Oatridge International Guitar Summer School and Festival . Duarte has also given courses in nearly forty countries outside the UK.

Duarte regularly wrote articles for magazines such as Music in Education , Guitar Review , Guitar International , Music & Musicians , Records and Recording (from 1968), Performance and most recently book, music, concert and record reviews for the Soundboard . He also wrote more than 250 liner notes , a. a. for the new edition of all of Julian Bream's recordings at RCA. He received a Grammy Award for the text accompanying the new edition of Andrés Segovia's recordings from 1927 to 1939 . He has also published interviews with well-known musicians such as Gidon Kremer and Anne-Sophie Mutter , John Eliot Gardiner , Julian Bream, Ton Koopman and Trevor Pinnock , Konrad Junghänel , Ravi Shankar , Alicia de Larrocha and Murray Perahia and wrote articles for the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians .

Duarte wrote more than 150 original works for guitar or lute, more than a third of which are available as recordings, as well as a number of adaptations and arrangements as well as music educational works.

His sixtieth and seventieth birthday was celebrated with concerts in the Wigmore Hall in London, the celebration of his eightieth birthday took place in the Bolivar Hall . In 1990 he received a silver medal from the Czech ambassador in London for his services to Anglo-Czech and -slovak cultural relations. The Convention of the Guitar Foundation of America awarded him a Lifetime Achievement Award in 1999.

Works (selection)

  • Prelude in C (Opus 3), 1945
  • Sonata in D minor (Opus 4), 1946
  • Meditation on a Ground Bass (Opus 5), 1947
  • Miniature Suite (Opus 6), 1948
  • Epitaph for Manuel Ponce (Opus 7), 1949
  • Impromptu in E flat (Opus 8), 1951
  • Valse Caprice (Opus 17), 1953
  • Nocturne and Toccata (Opus 18), 1954
  • Simple Prelude (Opus 19), 1955
  • Variations on a Catalan Folk Song (Opus 25), 1956
  • 'Sister Awake' and 'Airly Beacon' (Opus 23), 1957
  • Sonatina (Opus 27), 1958
  • Fantasia and Fugue on 'Torre Bermeja' (Opus 30), 1960
  • English Suite (Opus 31) Nos. 1-7, 1963-1999
  • Variations on a French Nursery Song (Opus 32), 1965
  • Sans Cesse (Opus 34), 1967
  • Prelude, Canto and Toccata (Opus 38), 1968
  • Suite Ancienne (Opus 479), 1969
  • Suite Piemontese (Opus 46), 1970
  • Sonatina Lirica (Opus 48), 1971
  • Sua cosa ( Wes Montgomery Memorial) (Opus 52), 1972
  • All in a row (of Webern's) (Opus 51), 1973
  • Tout en Ronde (Opus 57), 1973–1974
  • Partita (Opus 59), 1974
  • Tentos I (Opus 63), 1975
  • The Memory of a Dance (Opus 64), 1976
  • Birds (Opus 66), 1977
  • Guitar Duets without Tears (Opus 74), 1978
  • Homage to Antonio Lauro (Three waltzes) (Opus 83), 1979
  • Guitar Quintet No. 1 (Opus 85), 1980
  • Greek Suite No. 2 (Opus 89), 1981
  • Idylle pour Ida (Homage to Ida Presti ) , 1982
  • Americana , 1982
  • Variations on a theme of Stèphán Rak , 1985
  • Musikones , 1989
  • Canción y Danza (Homage to Ruiz-Pipó ) , 1994
  • Variations on an Andante of Nikita Koshkin , 1997
  • Variations on an Italian Folk Song , 2000
  • The Memory of a Dance , op.64, for flute and guitar

literature

  • Peter Päffgen: “… a musical instrument and not a musical totem pole…” Interview with John W. Duarte, London, May 31, 1982. In: Guitar & Laute 4, 1982, 6, pp. 306-314.

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Duarte, John W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Duarte, John William (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English guitarist, composer, music educator and critic
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Sheffield
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 2004
Place of death Manchester