Denis Matthews

Denis Matthews ( born February 27, 1919 in Coventry, † December 25, 1988 in Birmingham ) was a British pianist, music educator and scientist.

Matthews studied at the Royal Academy of Music composition with William Alwyn and was a piano pupil of Harold Craxton. In 1939 he made ​​his debut as a pianist in London. From 1940 to 1946 he served in the Royal Air Force. During this time (1944 ) was a plate recording of the Beethoven Horn Sonata with the horn player Dennis Brain.

After the war, Matthews toured as a piano soloist and worked with the Griller Quartet and the Amadeus Quartet. Part of his repertoire, composers of the Viennese Classical stood. In addition to Myra Hess, Louis Kentner and Frank Merrick, he was among the first that took up piano works of John Field on disk. From 1971 to 1984, Matthews Professor of Music at Newcastle University. He has published, among others Books on Beethoven, Arturo Toscanini and the piano music of Johannes Brahms. In 1966 he published his autobiography, In Pursuit of Music.

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  • Oxford Grove Music Encyclopedia: Denis (James) Matthews
  • The Shellackophile - Denis Matthews in Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven
  • Michael Hurd "Letters of Gerald Finzi and Howard Ferguson ", Boydell & Brewer, 2001, ISBN 9780851158235, p 202
  • Classic pianist
  • Music teacher
  • Musicologist
  • University teachers (Newcastle University)
  • Briton
  • Born in 1919
  • Died in 1988
  • Man
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