Peggy Glanville-Hicks

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Peggy Glanville-Hicks, 1948

Peggy Winsome Glanville-Hicks (born December 29, 1912 in Melbourne , † June 25, 1990 in Darlinghurst , Sydney ) was an Australian composer.

After studying composition with the conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Fritz Hart , Glanville-Hicks moved to the Royal College of Music in London , where she studied composition with Ralph Vaughan Williams , piano with Arthur Benjamin and conducting with Malcolm Sargent . In 1936/37 she completed her training with Nadia Boulanger in Paris and with Egon Wellesz in Vienna . In 1941 she moved to the USA , where she worked as a music critic, general secretary and - from 1950 to 1960 - director of the Composer's Forum at Columbia University . She was also member of the Secretariat of the International Music Fund of UNESCO . In 1975/76 she returned to Australia.

Glanville-Hicks composed five operas and eight ballets , a symphony , a sinfonietta, a flute, a viola and a piano concerto, numerous chamber music works, choral music, songs , song cycles and film scores.

Works

  • Caedmon , Opera, 1933
  • Letters from Morocco for tenor and orchestra, 1952
  • Three Gymnopedies for string orchestra, 1953
  • Sinfonia da Pacifica for orchestra, 1953
  • The transposed heads. A Legend of India , opera based on the story The Transposed Heads of Thomas Mann , 1953
  • Etruscan Concerto for piano and orchestra, 1954
  • Concerto Romantico for viola and orchestra, 1956
  • The Glittering Gate , Opera, 1956
  • The Masque of the Wild Man , ballet, 1958
  • Saul and the Witch of Endor , TV ballet, 1959
  • Nausicaa , Opera, 1960
  • Tragic Celebration (Jephtha's Daughter) , ballet, 1964
  • Sappho , Opera, 1965

literature

  • Deborah Hayes: Peggy Glanville-Hicks. A Bio-Bibliography . Greenwood Press, New York 1990, ISBN 0-313-26422-8 .
  • Victoria Rogers: The Music of Peggy Glanville-Hicks . Ashgate, Farnham, England 2009, ISBN 978-0-7546-6635-6 .
  • Antje Olivier, Karin Weingartz-Peschel: Glanville-Hicks, Peggy . In: composers from A to Z . Tokkata, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-9801603-0-0 , p. 134 f .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Suzanne Robinson: Glanville-Hicks, Peggy Winsome (1912–1990) . In: Douglas Pike (Ed.): Australian Dictionary of Biography . Volume 17. Melbourne University Press, Carlton (Victoria) 2007, ISBN 978-0-522-85382-7 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Glanville-Hicks, Peggy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Glanville-Hicks, Peggy Winsome (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian composer
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Melbourne
DATE OF DEATH June 25, 1990
Place of death Darlinghurst , Sydney