Harrison Birtwistle in front of all the British avant-garde agencies

September 16, 1995 Wereldwijd stands at the highest television station connected to Last prom night. Men verwachtte Rule, Britain! be A land of hope and glory, uit volle borst meegejoeld door een met vlaggen zwaaiend publiek. Men of the world premiere of a fast-paced modernist saxophone concert, shining on the rising title Panic. Nog voor het stuk ten einde was, stond de telefoon van de BBC rood te gloeien. Of hee afgelopen mocht zijn met dat kattengejank. The composer van this verk, Harrison Burtvistl, performed at the outlope nieta verantvuordelijk vaor de ofef. Kon hij het helpen dat het gehoor van de gemiddelde luisteraar hopeloos onderontwikkeld was.

Afgelopen maandag surpassed Harrison Bertwisla in zijn Woonplaats, het Zuid-Engelse Mere. He was 87 years old. Sinds de jaren 1960 behoorde hij tot de allergrootsten van de Britse avant-gardemuziek. Nochtans liet zijn werk zich maar moeilijk onderbrengen bij een specificeke stijl of stroming. Daarvoor was his signature and persoonlijk. In the core words: the labyrinthine dimension of the opset. Theater at work. We are lyrical, very steady and weatherproof.

Jeugd in Northern England

The power of the barge adjectives to its clairvoyance, is still in use in the land with the land of its youth. In 1934, Birtwistle appeared in Accrington, Northern England. Denk kale heuvels, grajze luchten en al even grauwe arbeiderswoningen. To your own mind, be a musical career with what you can do in the morning. Pas poznej kwam hij erachter dat er eigenlijk een clarinet in zijn koffertje zat.

At a time when the most harmonious orchestras were performed by Harry in 1952, a number of works were made of his musical ambitions. As a student at the Royal College of Music in Manchester, he met with student Peter Maxwell Davis and Alexander Gera at the New Music Manchester Group Officer.

Also the composer Bewandelde Birtwistle van Meet af aan andere paden and zijn continentale collega’s. Be amazed at the many marvelous prospects for generating both Karlheinz Stockhausen and Pierre Boulez, and in a series of composer technologies. As a clarinetist, as a musician of the most unique line, he was probably more met with the melodious idiom of Olivier Messiaen; Met de Holder structures by Ігар Стравінскі and physics management of Edgard Varèse.

In 1957 he met maakte Birtwistle zijn componistendebuut Choruses and choruses, a quintet for four houtblazers in horn. Opvallend is hoezeer het stuk een sort Sneak Preview vormt op zijn latere oeuvre. Crowds Ruwgebolsterde. Penetrating hoge registers. Maar ook: listg uitgewerkte theatrele verhoudingen tussen de instrumenten. The horn that at the same time in the beat of the hutkvartet snatert, wijst vooruit naar the instrumental theater van Poems for ensembles (1969), Secret Theater (1984) en Five distances for five instruments (1992).

Difficulty

Birtwistles grote doorbraak kwam in the 1968 opera Punch and Judy at the premiere of the festival in Oldeburg. The greatness of love is the libretto as well as the music of the hidden one. Festival of Benjamin Britten Looks for a break from the hall.

Muziektheater zou niettemin een ride draad blijven ў творчества Біртвісла, getuige mythische opera als Mask of Orpheus (1973-84), Gawain (1991), The second Mrs. Kong (1994) en Minotaur (2008). The syllable of the symphony orchestra is moving. The triumph of time (1972), based on a famous young man by Pieter Breughel de Oude, in an unforgettable way Dances of the Earth (1986) behoren tot zijn bekendste orkestwerken.

In 1975, in 1983, the Royal National Theater in London was the musical leader of Birtvisla, who served as the new head of the Royal National Theater. In 1988, in 2001, he became an honorary comrade. From 1994 to 2001 he was Professor of Composition by Henry Purcell at King’s College London. Under Belarusian awards, he was awarded the prestigious Grameyer Award (1987) and the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize (1995).