Arnold Walter
Arnold Maria Walter ( born August 30, 1902 in Hannsdorf / Moravia, † October 6, 1973 in Toronto ) was a Czech- Canadian composer, music educator and writer -.
Walter attended high school in Brno and earned with tuition money to take composition lessons with Bruno Weigl, a pupil of Bruckner, can. On his father's wish he studied in Prague Jura, but then went to Berlin, where he studied at the University of Hermann Abert, Curt Sachs, and John Wolf and besides private piano lessons with Rudolf Breithaupt and Frederic Lamond and lessons in composition with Franz Schreker took.
He was the author of the music magazine Melos and early 1930s, a columnist for the world stage and music critic of the forward. In 1933, he fled from the Nazis to Mallorca and went with the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936 to England, where he was active in the field of folk music research.
In 1937 he received a teaching position at Upper Canada College, where he taught until 1943. In 1945 he was appointed professor at the Royal Conservatory of Music, in order to implement the results of Ernest Hutcheson reports on the reorganization of higher music education. He established the Senior School as a department for advanced studies and the Royal Conservatory Opera School, for which he the conductor Nicholas Goldschmidt and the director Felix Brentano. 1947, the opera school success with a performance of Smetana's The Bartered Bride.
1946 Walter led a first teaching program in Canada for music teachers in elementary and secondary schools. With Doreen Hall at the Royal Conservatory in 1955, he led the first courses in North America for the Orff teaching method a. Between 1952 and 1968 he worked with Hall at an English edition of the Orff - Schulwerk.
From 1952 to 1968, Walter Director of the Music Faculty of the University of Toronto. His most famous pupil was Paul McIntyre, Phil Nimmons and Clermont Pépin. In addition to teaching Walter was, inter alia, president of the Canadian Music Council ( 1965-66 ) and the Canadian Music Centre (1959 and 1970) and editor of the Canadian Music Journal ( 1956-62 ).
In his compositions, Walter remained stylistically personified by Mahler, Strauss, Debussy and the young Schoenberg late Romantic connected. He also wrote symphonic works the piano and chamber music.
1972 Walter officer of the Order of Canada. 1974 renamed the University of Toronto, the concert hall of the Edward Johnson Building after him and donated the Arnold Walter Award for students. His stepdaughter Trudi Le Caine, Hugh Le Caine the composer woman was honored for her contribution to the promotion of music education of children as a member of the Order of Canada.
Works
- Sonatina for Cello and Piano, 1940
- Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano, 1940
- Sonata for Violin and Piano, 1940
- Symphony in G minor for large orchestra, 1942
- Suite for Piano, 1945
- For the Fallen for soprano, mixed choir and orchestra, 1949
- Concerto for Orchestra, 1958
- Sonata for piano, 1950
- Summer Idyll for tape, 1960
- Czech composer
- Born in 1902
- Died in 1973
- Man