Jonathan Harvey (composer)

Jonathan Harvey (born May 3, 1939 in Sutton Coldfield , England , † December 4, 2012 in Lewes , England) was a British composer .

Life

Harvey studied philosophy at St John's College (Cambridge) but, on the advice of Benjamin Britten , also took lessons from Erwin Stein and Hans Keller . Early musical influences came from the music of Arnold Schönberg , Alban Berg , Olivier Messiaen and Britten . During his postgraduate studies at Glasgow University , Harvey was a cellist with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra . During this time he began to be interested in the music of Karlheinz Stockhausen , about which he wrote a book in 1975.

In 1969 he got a "Harkness Scholarship" from the City of New York for Princeton University , where he met Milton Babbitt , who also had a strong influence on him. In the 1980s, Harvey worked at IRCAM at the invitation of Pierre Boulez . There he produced, among other things, the live electronics for his orchestral work Speakings , which, as the title suggests, should make the instruments speak ( make an orchestra speak ).

In 1993 his opera The Inquest of Love was premiered at the English National Opera in London, and in 2007 his opera Wagner Dream at the Grand théâtre de la ville de Luxembourg .

Harvey has been visiting professor at the University of Oxford , Imperial College London and Sussex University . From 2005 to 2008 he was "Composer in Association" of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and in 2009 " Composer in Residence " of the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.

Harvey's estate has been in the Paul Sacher Foundation Basel since 2016 .

Works

Fonts

• The Music of Stockhausen: An Introduction . University of California Press, Berkeley / Los Angeles 1975, ISBN 0-520-02311-0 .
• Inner Light (3) . In: The Musical Times 117, no. 1596, February 1976, pp. 125-127.
• Ferneyhough . Edition Peters, London 1981.
• New Directions: A Manifesto . In: Soundings: A Music Journal. 11 (Winter) 1983, pp. 2-13.
• Music and inspiration. Edited by Michael Downes. Faber and Faber, London / New York 1999, ISBN 0-571-20025-7 .
• In Quest of Spirit: Thoughts on Music . The Bloch Lectures. With CD. University of California Press, Berkeley / Los Angeles 1999, ISBN 0-520-21392-0 .
  • French edition: Pensées sur la musique: la quête de l'esprit. Translated by Mireille Tansman Zanuttini in collaboration and with an introduction by Danielle Cohen-Levinas. L'Harmattan, Paris 2007, ISBN 2-296-03753-4 .
  • Spanish: Música e inspiración. Translated by Carme Castells. Global Rhythm Press, Barcelona 2008, ISBN 978-84-96879-31-7 / ISBN 84-96879-31-3 .
• With Jean-Claude Carrière: Circles of Silence . The Cahiers Series no. 3. Center for Writers & Translators, the Arts Arena, AUP, Paris / Sylph Editions, Lewes [England] 2007, ISBN 0-9552963-3-1 .

Compositions (selection)

• Dialogue and song for violoncello (1965/1977)
• Four Images after Yeats for piano (1969)
• Piano Trio (1971)
• String Quartet No. 1 (1977)
• O Jesu Nomen Dulce for choir (1979)
• Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco for live electronics and tape (1980)
• Mythic Figures (1980)
• Bhakti for 15 players and tape (1982)
• Curve with Plateaux for violoncello (1982)
• Flight-Elegy for violin and piano (1983–1989)
• Nataraja for flute, piccolo and piano (1983)
• Night song for soprano, piano and tape (1984)
• Come Holy Ghost for choir (1984)
• Ricercare una Melodia for trumpet, violoncello, flute, oboe and trombone with tape delay system (1984)
• Song Offerings for soprano and ensemble (8 players) (1985)
• Forms of Emptiness for choir (1986)
• God is our Refuge for choir and organ (1986)
• Madonna of Winter and Spring for orchestra, synthesizer and electronics (1986)
• Lauds for choir and violoncello (1987)
• From Silence for soprano, 6 players and tape (1988)
• String Quartet No. 2 (1988)
• Three Sketches for violoncello (1989)
• Ritual Melodies for tape (1989-90)
• Violoncello Concerto (1990)
• Fantasia for organ (1991)
• Serenade in Homage to Mozart for 10 wind instruments (1991)
• Scena for violin and ensemble (9 players) (1992)
• Lotuses for flute quartet (1992)
• Chant for violoncello (viola) (1992–1994)
• The Riot for flute, piccolo, bass clarinet and piano (1993)
• One Evening ... for soprano, mezzo-soprano, ensemble (8 players) and live electronics (1993–1994)
• The Angels for choir (1994)
• Tombeau de Messiaen for piano and tape (1994)
• Advaya for violoncello, keyboard and electronics (1994)
• Dum Transisset Sabbatum for choir (1995)
• String Quartet No. 3 (1995)
• Percussion Concerto (1997)
• Sufi Dance for guitar (1997)
• Wheel of Emptiness for ensemble (16 players) (1997)
• Ashes Dance Back for choir and electronics (1997)
• Death of Light / Light of Death for ensemble (5 players) for Grünewald's Isenheim Altarpiece (1998)
• Tranquil Abiding for small orchestra (1998)
• Valley of Aosta for 13 players and electronics (1998)
• Marahi for choir (1999)
• The Summer Cloud's Awakening for choir, flute, violoncello and electronics (2001)
• Verse for piano (2000)
• Jubilus for viola and ensemble (2003)
• String Quartet No. 4 with live electronics (2003)
• String Trio (2004)
• Body Mundala for orchestra (2006)
• Wagner Dream , Opera (2007)
• Spoken singing for oboe / english horn and ensemble (13 players) (2007)
• Other Presences for Trumpet and Electronics (2008)
• Imaginings for violoncello and live electronics
• Philia's Dream for violoncello and synthesizer
• Global ethic for speakers, choirs and orchestras (2011)

Literature (selection)

chronologically
the most important foreign-language literature here

• Griffiths, Paul: Jonathan Harvey , in: New Sounds, New Personalities - British Composers of the 1980s in Conversation with Paul Griffiths pp. 46–53, London 1985: Faber & Faber
• Martha Brech: Analysis of electroacoustic music with the help of sonograms . European university publications XXXVI: Musicology, No. 118. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-631-47427-X .
• Martha Brech: In the field of tension between the archaic and the modern: rites in electronic listening and electroacoustic music . In: Barbara Barthelmes and Helga de La Motte-Haber (eds.): Music and ritual: five congress contributions, two free contributions and a seminar report. Publications of the Institute for New Music and Music Education Darmstadt, No. 39. Schott, Mainz 1999. pp. 89-109.
• Jörn Florian Fuchs: Buddhist dreams of light and electronics: Jonathan Harvey's “Wagner Dream” premiered at the Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg (June 6, 2007). In: Wagnerspectrum 3, No. 2/2007. Pp. 185-186.
• Suzanne Josek: Jonathan Harvey: '... towards a Pure Land': Stations of a compositional journey , Mainz: Schott, [2016], ISBN 978-3-95983-063-8

Web links

• Works by and about Jonathan Harvey in the catalog of the German National Library
• Jonathan Harvey website
• Page about Jonathan Harvey on IRCAM
• Jonathan Harvey - Interview by Daniel Jaffé. At www.compositiontoday.com. (First published in Classic CD , July 1999.)
• Vanessa Thorpe: Jonathan Harvey calls for increased classical music to attract young audiences. In: The Observer , September 5, 2010 (in English)
• Chance Music with Jonathan Harvey. Interview with Bob Shingleton. Future Radio, September 5, 2010
• Composing oneself. University of St Andrews 600th Anniversary Composition Competition October 14, 2010

Individual evidence

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2. ↑ The Times , December 5, 2012
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