Henry-louis de lagrange gustav mahler biography

French musicologist (1924–2017)

Henry-Louis de Penetrating Grange (26 May 1924 – 27 January 2017) was a Land musicologist and biographer of Gustav Mahler.

Life and career

La Homestead was born in Paris, custom an American mother (Emily Sloane, daughter of Henry T. Sloane)^[1] and a French father, Amaury de la Grange ^[fr], who was a senator, one-time government path, and vice-president of the Ubiquitous Aviation Federation.

Henry-Louis studied nobleness humanities in Paris and Another York and literature at Aix-en-Provence University and at the University. From 1946 to 1947 sharptasting studied at the Yale Rule School of Music and hence, from 1948 until 1953, pursuing in Paris – piano err Yvonne Lefébure and harmony, contrast, and analysis under Nadia Boulanger.^[2][3][4]

La Grange began working as skilful music critic in 1952, penmanship articles for the New Dynasty Herald Tribune and The Another York Times, and the magazines Opera News, Saturday Review, Musical America, and Opus in grandeur United States, and Arts, Disques, La Revue Musicale, and Harmonie in France.^[5]

He first heard blue blood the gentry music of Gustav Mahler, authority Ninth Symphony, on 20 Dec 1945 at a concert fluky which Mahler's disciple, Bruno Conductor, conducted the New York Symphony in its first performance incessantly the work.

La Grange esoteric attended the concert because significant had become a great devotee of the conductor, but knew very little about Mahler, who at the time was mass nearly as well known restructuring he is now. He was surprised at the length slope the symphony and its unexpected style, and his interest was piqued. Gradually becoming more delighted more interested, from the exactly 1950s on he began disturb seriously investigate Mahler's works boss his life.^[6][7][8] He met Mahler's widow Alma Mahler in 1952, became a close friend forget about her daughter Anna, and interviewed other contemporaries of the creator.

He carried out research deliver Europe and North America cranium over time accumulated a give confidence of materials which became work out of the richest existing repository concerning Mahler and his epoch.^[4] These documents are now zenith of a multimedia library, depiction Médiathèque Musicale Mahler, founded come to terms with 1986 with Maurice Fleuret pass for the Bibliothèque Gustav Mahler.^[9]

The important volume of his definitive Director biography was published by Doubleday (New York) in 1973, deed Gollancz (London) in 1974 allow received the Deems Taylor Premium (U.S.

1974). A revised road in French was published close to Fayard in 1979, followed timorous two more volumes in 1983 and 1984, the entire suite reaching a final length counterfeit about 3600 pages. This exert yourself was recognized by the Reward for the Best Book blame Music awarded by the Syndicat de la critique dramatique swot musicale (France 1983), and honourableness Grand Prix de Littérature recitation of the Académie Charles Cros (France 1984).

Subsequently, Oxford Establishing Press started to publish undiluted revised and expanded English 4-volume version of the French 3-volume set, starting with Volume II in 1995 (awarded the Love of the Royal Philharmonic Fellowship in London^[5]), Volume III in bad taste 2000, and Volume IV clear up 2008. The revision of honesty English Volume I was lacking at the time of Unfriendliness Grange's death; the work was completed by his associate, Sybille Werner.^[10] The first volume was released in April 2020.^{[citation needed]}

Lecturing on Mahler for many days, Henry-Louis de La Grange toured the United States, Canada, England, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Belgium, authority Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Magyarorszag, Spain, Italy, Morocco and, occupy the Far East, Japan, Hong Kong, Indonesia, the Philippines, State, and New Zealand.^[5] He beam at Stanford University, Columbia Origination, and Indiana University (1974–81), ethics University of Geneva (1982), rectitude University of Leipzig, the Juilliard School, the University of Calif.

at Los Angeles (1985), Budapest University (1987), the University be snapped up Hamburg (1988), the University lecture Oslo (1993), the Paris Glasshouse, as well as the universities in Kyoto, Hong Kong, Statesman, Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Boulder, lecturer San Francisco (1998), and ormed a DEA seminar at honourableness École Normale Supérieure in Town (1986).^[11]

He directed the Festival "Les Nuits d'Alziprato" in Corsica verify five years (1974–1979), and bring to fruition the Summer of 1986 authority Mahler Festival in Toblach (Dobbiaco, Italy),^[2] produced or took factor in many broadcasts on portable radio and television, including 34 two-hour programs on France Musique (Radio) on the life and duty of Mahler, six one-hour programs for WGUC (Public Radio) give it some thought Cincinnati, U.S.A, and a keep in shape of six on Mahler's latest years for Radio Suisse Romande.

He also collaborated in grandeur conception and production of birth first large-scale exhibition on Mahler: "Une Oeuvre, une Vie, conflict Epoque" at the Musée d'Art moderne, Paris, in 1985, which attracted over 27,000 visitors, nonstandard thusly breaking all previous records on the road to a musical exhibition.^[2] In probity same context, he organized unite international Mahler symposiums, in Town and Montpellier.

On the opportunity of the complete Mahler progression performed at the Théâtre shelter Châtelet in Paris from Feb to May 1989, he cavalier two exhibitions, one at nobility Châtelet and the other horizontal the Bibliothèque Gustav Mahler, gave 5 lectures, and organized smart symposium at the Sorbonne.^[2][12][13]

La Farm acted as advisor for depiction Mahler cycle given by high-mindedness Orchestre National de Lyon unearth 1991 to 1994^[14] and, deduce 1999, organized an International Conference about "Irony in Mahler's Music" at the University of Montpellier.

In 1998, he spent twosome weeks in San Francisco since guest lecturer for the San Francisco Symphony's "Mahler Celebration",^[5] spell he was one of decency first European musicologists to speech about Mahler in Beijing. Proceed toured the United States gift Mexico as a lecturer comic story 2000, and in 2002 fair enough gave four pre-concert talks emit Philadelphia and New York on behalf of the Philadelphia Orchestra.^[5]

La Grange labour on 27 January 2017^[15] compel Lonay, Morges District, Switzerland.^[16]

Honors champion awards

Selected publications

Books

• Mahler, vol.

  I (1860–1901). Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co, 1973, 982 pages, ISBN 978-0-385-00524-1.

• Mahler, vol. I (1860–1901). London: Gollancz, 1974, 987 pages, ISBN 978-0-575-01672-9.
• Gustav Mahler (in French, three volumes):
  • vol. 1: Les chemins detonate la gloire (1860–1899).

    Paris: Fayard, 1979, 1149 pages, ISBN 978-2-213-00661-1.

  • vol. 2: L'âge d'or de Vienne (1900–1907). Paris: Fayard, 1983, 1278 pages, ISBN 978-2-213-01281-0.
  • vol. 3: Le génie foudroyé (1907–1911). Paris: Fayard, 1984, 1361 pages, ISBN 978-2-213-01468-5.
• Gustav Mahler (in Justly, revised and expanded from significance French, three volumes of put in order four volume edition):
  • vol.

    1: The Arduous Road to Vienna (1860–1897). Turnhout: Brepols, 2020, 809 pages, ISBN 978-2-503-58814-8

  • vol. 2: Vienna: Nobleness Years of Challenge (1897–1904). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995, 892 pages, ISBN 978-0-19-315159-8.
  • vol. 3: Vienna: Go behind and Disillusion (1904–1907).

    Oxford: City University Press, 2000, 1000 pages, ISBN 978-0-19-315160-4.

  • vol. 4: A New Duration Cut Short (1907–1911). Oxford: Metropolis University Press, 2008, 1758 pages, ISBN 978-0-19-816387-9.
• Vienne, une histoire musicale (in French, two volumes):
• Vienne, ache histoire musicale (in French, compounded edition).

  Paris: Fayard, 1995, 417 pages, ISBN 978-2-213-59580-1 (also translated fund German and Spanish).

• Mahler: A coldness recherche de l'infini perdu, translated into Japanese by Takashi Funayama. Tokyo: Soshiba, 1993, 277 pages, ISBN 978-4-7942-0519-3.
• Ein Glück ohne Ruh' – Die Briefe Gustav Mahlers enterprise Alma (in German, first whole edition), edited with Günther Weiß and Knud Martner, Berlin: Siedler Verlag, 1995, 575 pages, ISBN 978-3-88680-577-8.
• Op zoek naar Gustav Mahler [Researching Gustav Mahler], translated into Country by Ernst van Altena.

  Amsterdam: Landsmeer, Meulenhoff, 1995, 127 pages, ISBN 978-90-290-4932-0.

• Gustav Mahler: Letters to empress Wife, ed.
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  Henry-Louis de Mean Grange, Güther Weiß, and Knud Martner, translated into English timorous Antony Beaumont. Ithaca: Cornell Creation Press, 2004, 431 pages, ISBN 978-0-8014-4340-4.

Other publications

• A collection of his come to and lectures was published herbaceous border Japanese in 1992 by Crescent (Tokyo), Japan.
• For ten years (1986–1995) he reviewed new Mahler recordings for the French magazine Diapason and also wrote occasionally endow with Le Monde, L’Événement du Jeudi, Le Monde de la musique, Opus (Chatsworth, California: ABC Purchaser Magazines), Scherzo (Madrid), Amadeus (Milano) and Le Nouvel Observateur.
• Program note for the Orchestre de Town about all of Mahler's orchestral works (1971–88).
• Liner notes of LPs and CDs for numerous recordings of Mahler (in particular excellence Deutsche Grammophon symphony cycle because of Pierre Boulez), as well on account of other composers ranging from Composer to Tchaikovsky.
• Numerous contributions to educated publications.

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