Edmund Rubbra: Symphonist (eBook)

Leo Black (Autor)

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2008
256 Seiten
Boydell & Brewer Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84615-631-1 (ISBN)

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Leo Black, a pupil of Rubbra in the 1950s, presents a full-scale study of his symphonies (the first for fifteen years). A biographical sketch throws light on legends about the BBC and Rubbra; there are full programme notes on each symphony, with accounts of important non-symphonic works.The music of Edmund Rubbra (1901-1986) has been unjustly neglected - arguably because its wide-ranging nature makes it difficult to categorise. He is perhaps best known as a symphonist; his eleven symphonies covered a period of musical and political upheaval [1934 - 1980], the first four reflecting the uneasy later 1930s, with a second global conflict no longer avoidable. The immediately-post-war ones document new emotional depths and his conversion, whilethe final symphonies show a man still in search of peace and reconciliation, overlooked by the world but certain he was on the right path. Leo Black, a pupil of Rubbra at Oxford in the 1950s, here presents a sympatheticfull-scale study of these works (the first for some fifteen years). A succinct biographical sketch throws light on legends about the BBC and Rubbra; there are full programme notes on each symphony, with shorter accounts of important non-symphonic works, in particular a 'triptych' of concertos from the 1950s and major liturgical pieces composed around the time of the Second Vatican Council, after Rubbra's conversion to Catholicism. He also deals with the vexed question of Rubbra's mysticism. LEO BLACK is a former BBC chief producer for music and author of the highly-acclaimed Franz Schubert: Music and Belief [2003].

Inhalt

Preface: Rubbra in the Third Millenium?
General Features
The Early Years
The First Four Symphonies and the War Years
The War Years and the Fifth Symphony
A Question of Mysticism I
The Post-War Years and the Sixth Symphony
A Question of Mysticism II
The Seventh Symphony
The Tide Turns: the Eigth Symphony
The Final Years and Last Three Symphonies
Appendices

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.9.2012
• Zusatzinfo: 1 b/w illus.
• Verlagsort: Woodbridge
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musikgeschichte
• Schlagworte: BBC • Biography • Catholicism • Composer • concertos • Conversion • Edmund Rubbra • Leo Black • Liturgical pieces • music • Mysticism • Neglected • Oxford • Peace • political upheaval • Post-War • programme notes • Reconciliation • Second Vatican Council • Symphonies • Symphonist • Triptych • Vatican Council • World War II
• ISBN-10: 1-84615-631-9 / 1846156319
• ISBN-13: 978-1-84615-631-1 / 9781846156311