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Felix Aprahamian : diaries and selected writings on music / edited by Lewis and Susan Foreman.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML423.A673 F455 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Foreman, Lewis, author.
- Foreman, Susan, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aprahamian, Felix--Diaries.
- Aprahamian, Felix.
- Music critics--England--Diaries.
- Music critics.
- Musical criticism.
- England.
- Genre:
- Diaries.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 422 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Woodbridge : The Boydell Press, 2015.
- Summary:
- The music critic Felix Aprahamian (1914-2005) was a remarkable self-made man whose enormous influence in musical circles was deeply founded in his practical experience of promoting music in London, notably British and French composers. Early on he became interested in the organ and was soon corresponding with the leading French names of the day - Andre Marchal, Charles Tournemire, Maurice Durufle and the young Olivier Messiaen. In 1933, the nineteen-year-old Aprahamian visited Frederick Delius in France, and while in Paris, met the aged Charles-Marie Widor. The surviving diaries, published here complete for the first time, document these events in detail. During the Second World War he acted as concert director of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, was the guiding spirit behind the influential Concerts de Musique Francaise and became assistant to Sir Thomas Beecham. After the liberation of Paris, a wide circle of outstanding French musicians and composers including Francis Poulenc, Messiaen, Pierre Bernac and Pierre Fournier became personal friends. Aprahamian made his name as music critic on The Sunday Times, where from 1948 to 1989 he was required reading.0.
- Contents:
- Part I The Musical Diaries 45
- 1933 45
- 1934 110
- 1935 and Later 170
- Part II Articles and Reminiscences about Friends and Contemporaries 208
- Ernest Ansermet 208
- Sir Thomas Armstrong 216
- Henry Barraud 219
- Arnold Bax 220
- Sir Thomas Beecham 222
- Ernest Bloch 227
- Andre Caplet 231
- Edouard Colonne 233
- George Dorrington Cunningham 236
- Claude Debussy 238
- Frederick Delius 247
- Maurice Duruflé 254
- Dr Philip Emanuel 256
- Gabriel Fauré 257
- Eric Fenby 263
- Anatole Fistoulari 265
- Berta Geissmar 266
- Alexandre Guilmant 269
- Arthur Honegger 270
- John Ireland 274
- Sigfrid Karg-Elert 279
- Rudolf Kempe 281
- Wanda Landowska 284
- André Marchal 286
- Frank Martin 289
- Olivier Messiaen 298
- Darius Milhaud 305
- Boris Ord 309
- Francis Poulenc 310
- Maurice Ravel 317
- Albert Roussel 324
- Victor De Sabata 326
- Florent Schmitt 329
- Arnold Schönberg 330
- Gérard Souzay 332
- Igor Stravinsky 334
- Maggie Teyte 337
- Charles Tournemire 339
- Louis Vierne 342
- Sir William Walton 347
- Part III Remembering the Great Organists 359
- Lynnwood Farnam 359
- André Marchal 361
- Joseph Bonnet 364
- Charles Tournemire 365
- Marcel Dupré 367
- Sir George Thalben-Ball 370
- Virgil Fox 372
- Nadia Boulanger 373
- Jeanne Demessieux 375
- Alexandra Palace Organ 377.
- ISBN:
- 9781783270132
- 1783270136
- OCLC:
- 917364381
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