Clarence Lucas

Clarence Lucas ( * October 19, 1866 in Six Nations Reserve, Ontario, † July 1, 1947 in Sèvres ) was a Canadian composer, writer and music educator.

The son of a Methodist pastor living in different small towns of Ontario, until he came to Montreal in 1878, where he studied piano, organ and violin and a school orchestra led. He then worked as a conductor of an amateur orchestra, organist and violinist at the Montreal Philharmonic Society. From 1885 to 1888 he studied privately in Paris with Georges -Eugène Marty and at the Conservatoire de Paris with Théodore Dubois piano.

After his return he taught at the Toronto College of Music, harmony and counterpoint. In 1889 he became musical director of the Wesleyan Ladies College in Hamilton. With the Hamilton Philharmonic Society in 1889, he led George Frideric Handel's Messiah and 1890 Sir Michael Costa's oratorio Eli on. From 1890 to 1892 he taught at Utica (New York).

The following year he went to London, where he privately taught music theory and composition and 1902-1904 the Westminster Society conducted. His students here were Mark and Jan Hambourg and Guy d' Hardelot. Since 1903 he has also been London correspondent of the New York Musical Courier.

Richard Mansfield hired him to arrange Grieg's incidental music to Ibsen's Peer Gynt for the U.S. premiere in 1906 and to conduct. Up to Mansfield Tof 1907 he toured with the production by the United States, after which he settled down as a member of the Musical Courier in New York.

In 1919 he again went to London and moved in 1921 after Sèvres, where he worked as an arranger, poet and translator, and until 1933 as Paris correspondent of the Musical Courier. Starting this year, he lived again in London.

Lucas was with the English pianist and pupil of Clara Schumann, Clara Asher, married in first marriage. His son Leighton Lucas (1903-1982) was also known as a conductor and composer.

Works

  • Two Lyrics, 1889
  • Deux Morceaux for piano, 1889
  • Deux Mazurkas for piano, 1890
  • Album of Six Songs Baritone, 1894
  • Élégie for Violin and Piano, 1895
  • Deux Pièces pour orgue grand, about 1896
  • The Money Spider, opera, about 1897
  • Anne Hathaway, opera, before 1898
  • Praeludium et fuga for piano, 1898
  • As You Like It, Overture, 1899
  • Macbeth Overture, 1900
  • Trois Morceaux pour grand orgue, 1900
  • The Birth of Christ, cantata, 1901
  • Ballade for Violin and Piano, 1901
  • Légende for Violin and Piano, 1903
  • Peggy Machree, musical play, 1904
  • Valse Impromptu for piano, 1904
  • Five Songs, 1904
  • Five Lyrical Pieces for Violin and Piano, 1908
  • Epithalamium for piano, 1913
  • Ariel for piano, 1913
  • The Bells, madrigal, 1913
  • Battle Ode, for choir, 1915
  • Holiday Sketches for Piano, 1915
  • Prelude and Fugue for Piano, 1916
  • Canadian Wedding March for Organ, 1917
  • Three Impromptus for Violin, 1938
  • Ballade for Violin and Piano, 1939
  • Two Compositions for Organ, 1941
  • Seven Short Pieces for Organ, 1945
  • Saga, An Icelandic fairy tales for piano
  • Othello, Overture
  • Symphony
  • Two symphonic poems
  • Editing the " Sinfonia " from Bach's " Christmas Oratorio ", Part II, for Piano

Writings

  • The Story of musical form, London 1908, reprint 1977 Boston
  • Canadian Composer
  • Author
  • Music teacher
  • Born in 1866
  • Died in 1947
  • Man
Hamilton (Ontario) Michael Costa (conductor) Mark Hambourg Edvard Grieg Henrik Ibsen
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