Alan Walker (musicologist)

Alan Walker, FRSC ( born April 6, 1930 in Scunthorpe ) is a British- Canadian musicologist and Liszt researchers.

Life

Growing up in Lincolnshire, Walker attended the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the Royal College of Music in London, where in 1949 or 1950 he graduated. Subsequently, he studied musicology and earned his bachelor's degree in 1956 from Durham University, where he also received his doctorate in 1965. From 1957 to 1960 he pursued private studies with the musicologist Hans Keller. From 1958 to 1961 he taught at the Guildhall Scholl, where he took piano lessons with Alfred Nieman. Subsequently he worked until 1971 as a director at the BBC until he took a job as a professor at McMaster University in Hamilton (Ontario) / Canada, where he led the musical faculty until 1980 and again from 1989 to 1995. In 1981 he established the first time the subject of music criticism as an independent course in Canada. In 1995 he became Professor Emeritus. From 1984 to 1987 he was a visiting professor at City University London.

Work

Alan Walker published an influential biography of Franz Liszt in three volumes, had been working on over twenty-five years, and suddenly made ​​him known in the English-speaking world, especially as it was at that time very little scientific literature on Liszt there. He also wrote about Robert Schumann and Frédéric Chopin. Across all three composers, he regularly lectures in Canada, the U.S. and the UK.

Walker lives in Ancaster and directs the annual festival "The Great Romantics " in Hamilton.

Awards

Walker 1974 Honorary Fellow of the Guildhall School of Music, 1986 Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and in 2002 an honorary doctorate from McMaster University. In 1980, he received the Medal of the Hungarian Liszt Society, the American Liszt Society in 1984 and 1995, the Pro Cultura Hungaria Medal.

Publications

Franz Liszt

  • Franz Liszt, 3 vols, London: Faber & Faber: Vol 1:. The virtuoso years, 1811-1847, 1983 edition Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987 ISBN 0-8014-9421-4.
  • Vol 2:. The Weimar years, 1848-1861, 1989 edition Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993 ISBN 0-8014-9721-3.
  • Vol 3:. The final years, 1861-1886, 1997 edition Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997 ISBN 0-8014-8453-7.
  • Franz Liszt. The Man and His Music. New York: 1970 ISBN 0-8008-2990-5 Taplinger Publishing. .
  • Liszt, Carolyne, and the Vatican. The Story of a thwarted Marriage ( with Gabriele Erasmi ), Stuyvesant / New York: Pendragon, 1991 ISBN 0-945193-09-2.
  • (Eds.) Living with Liszt. From the Diary of Carl laughing mouth, an American Pupil of Liszt, 1882-1884, Stuyvesant / New York: 1995, ISBN 0-945193-56-4.
  • (Ed.) The Death of Franz Liszt. Based on the Unpublished Diary of his pupil Lina Schmalhausen, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002 ISBN 0-8014-4076-9. .
  • Reflections on Liszt, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005 ISBN 0-8014-4363-6.

Other

  • A Study in Music Analysis, London: Barrie & Rockcliff 1962.
  • An Anatomy of Musical Criticism, London: Barrie & Rockcliff 1966.
  • Robert Schumann. The Man and His Music, London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1972 ISBN 0-214-66805-3. .
  • Hans von Bülow. A Life and Times, New York: Oxford University Press USA, 2009 (in print). ISBN 0-19-536868-1
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