Peter Holman

Peter Holman (born October 19, 1946 in London , England ) is an English musicologist , harpsichordist and organist .

Life

Holman studied harpsichord , organ and musicology at King's College in Cambridge , where he also founded a group for classical music ( Ars Nova ) during his student days . Today he is director of the Parley of Instruments , the Choir Psalmody and musical director of the Opera Restor'd .

He taught for ten years at the Royal Academy of Music in London and at various universities and colleges of music across Europe and America. He is currently a professor at the University of Leeds , where he works in the Faculty of Performance, Visual Arts and Communication . He is the chairman of the editorial board of Early Music Performer and co-editor of the Early Music , Musica Britannica series and a member of the Purcell Society .

His book Four and Twenty Fiddlers: The Violin at the English Court 1540-1690 (Oxford, 1993) was awarded the 1995 Derek Allen Prize of the British Academy in London.

Important work

Peter Holman examined Michael Praetorius ' collection of French dances, “ Terpsichore ” (1612), which today is one of his most frequently performed works, but has hardly been researched. He first presented various performance traditions of this music in the 20th century in order to take a look at the conception of the collection itself and the performance practice of court dance music from France at the beginning of the 17th century. On the one hand, he made the systematic character of the collection clear and on the other hand, he demonstrated that the majority of these pieces were originally composed for a violin ensemble working at the French court, an aspect that should be taken into account in today's performances of this music. He also made a number of recordings with his various ensembles as a conductor and as an instrumentalist.

Fonts

• "Terpsichore at 400: Michael Praetorius as a Collector of Dances." The Viola da Gamba Society Journal, Volume Six, 2012. pp. 34–51. On-line
• "Dowland Lachrimae" (Cambridge Music Handbook series), Cambridge: CUP 1999
• "Henry Purcell", Oxford 1994
• "Four and Twenty Fiddlers: The Violin at the English Court 1540-1690", Oxford 1993
• "Before the Baton: Musical Direction and Conducting in Stuart and Georgian Britain", Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer Ltd 1993, ISBN 978-1-78327-456-7 .

Web links

• akuma.de
• leeds.ac.uk
• parley.org.uk ( Memento of October 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive )