Joseph Horovitz

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Joseph Horovitz , also Joseph Horowitz (born May 26, 1926 in Vienna , Austria ) is a British composer and conductor .

Life

From 1936 he attended the Academic Gymnasium in Vienna and was expelled from school in 1938 with a large number of classmates under the cynical term "retraining" due to his Jewish descent. Shortly afterwards he emigrated to England with his family. There he studied music and modern languages ​​at New College , Oxford . He then went to the Royal College of Music in London and studied composition with Gordon Jacob . He then completed his composition studies with Nadia Boulanger in Paris for a year . He began his musical career from 1950 to 1951 as the music director of the Bristol Old Vic Company in Bristol . He then worked as a ballet and opera conductor for various international companies, with whom he toured Europe and the USA . He achieved international fame with the music for various TV series, such as B. Lillie , Rumpole , The Search for the Nile , The Flight against Slavery , Wessex Tales and Partners in Crime ( Detective Agency Blunt ).

Since 1961 he has been Professor of Composition at the Royal College of Music , London. In 1970 he became a board member of the Composers' Guild of Great Britain . From 1969 to 1996 he served on the board of the Performing Right Society .

From 1962 he shifted the focus of his activity increasingly to composing. His oeuvre includes 16 ballets, including the well-known Alice in Wonderland from 1953, 2 one-act operas ( The Dumb Wife , libretto Peter Shaffer , and Gentleman's Island , libretto Gordon Snell ), concerts for violin, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, euphonium , Tuba and percussion as well as a very popular and often played jazz concert for harpsichord and chamber orchestra, which was composed at the suggestion of George Malcolm . A larger number of works are written for wind orchestras and brass bands. He received the Commonwealth Medal in 1959 and many other awards for his compositions.

Works

Works for orchestra

  • 1948 Concertante for Clarinet and Strings
  • 1963 Trumpet Concerto
  • 1971 Sinfonietta for Light Orchestra
  • 1972 Horizon Overture
  • 1973 Valse
  • 1976 Bassoon Concerto
  • 1977 Jubilee Toy Symphony
  • 1981 Clarinet Sonatina
  • 1993 oboe concerto

Works for wind orchestra (including brass bands)

  • 1964 Three Pieces From "Music Hall Suite" for brass band
  • 1970 Sinfonietta for brass band
    1. Allegro
    2. Lento Moderato
    3. Con Brio
  • 1972 Euphonium Concerto for euphonium solo and wind orchestra (also a version for brass band)
    1. Moderato
    2. Lento
    3. Con Moto
  • 1975 The Dong with a Luminous Nose for brass band
  • 1977 Samson for baritone, mixed choir and brass band
  • 1983 Ballet for Band for brass band
  • 1984 Bacchus on Blue Ridge Divertimento for wind orchestra
    1. Moderato
    2. blues
    3. Vivo
  • 1985 Concertino Classico for 2 cornets (or trumpets) and brass band
    1. Con Brio
    2. Larghetto
    3. Allegro Rustico
  • 1991 Fête galante for wind orchestra
    1. Pavane
    2. Menuet
    3. Bourrée des Masques
  • 1992 Dance Suite
    1. Allegro
    2. Andantino
    3. Vivace
  • Ad Astra
  • Commedia Dell'Arte
  • Lillie Theme
  • Theme and co-operation for brass band
  • Tuba Concerto for tuba and brass band
    1. Allegro
    2. Andante
    3. Con Moto
  • Wind harp

Other works

  • 1952 Les Femmes d'Alger Ballet in 1 act
  • 1953 The Dumb Wife comic opera in 1 act
  • 1953 Alice in Wonderland Ballet in 2 acts
  • 1958 Concerto for Dancers Ballet in 1 act
  • 1958 Gentleman's Island Libretto Gordon Snell in English or German for tenor, baritone and chamber orchestra
  • 1962 Fantasia on a Theme of Couperin for a brass nonet
  • 1965 Let's Make a Ballet Ballet in 1 act
  • 1970 Captain Noah and his Floating Zoo Cantata Text: Michael Flanders for mixed choir with piano, double bass and percussion
  • 1970 Lady Macbeth Scena for mezzo-soprano and piano
  • 1980 Miss Carter Wore Pink Ballet in 1 act

Chamber music

  • 1949 Sonatina for oboe and piano op.3 (premiere 1957)
  • 1964 Music Hall Suite for brass quintet
    1. Soubrette song
    2. Trick cyclists
    3. Adagio team
    4. Soft shoe shuffle
    5. Les Girls
  • 1968 Brass Polka for brass quartet
  • 1969 String Quartet No. 5
  • Quartet for oboe and strings op.18

Film music

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the film database
personal data
SURNAME Horovitz, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British composer
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna