Everett Helm

Everett Helm Burton ( born July 17, 1913 in Minneapolis, † June 25, 1999 in Berlin) was an American composer, musicologist and journalist.

Life

Everett Helm, musically gifted - he was already at the age of 15 years as organist in Faribault worked, initially received a humanistic and musical education at Carleton College in Northfield (Minnesota). After Everett Helm had there in 1934 acquired the academic degree of Bachelor of Music, he moved to Harvard University in Cambridge (Massachusetts ), where he at the studies composition with Walter Piston, counterpoint with Arthur Tillman Merritt, conducting with Archibald Thompson Davison and musicology Hugo Leichtentritt recorded. In 1936 Everett Helm, he was the John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship grants, consisting of a grant of $ 1,500 per year for two or three years spent abroad, to Europe. Where he studied helmet first two years composition with Gian Francesco Malipiero in Asolo, then at Ralph Vaughan Williams and Alfred Einstein in England before 1939, after his return to the United States at Harvard University with the work The Beginnings of the Italian madrigal and the Works of Arcadelt was his doctorate in musicology.

Helmet, which held several teaching positions at the beginning of his career, had from 1944 to 1946 head of the music department of the Western College in Oxford ( Ohio) holds. As a result, he was from 1948 to 1950, used as a theater and music officer in Germany, first in Stuttgart, later in Wiesbaden. He then started his own business as a freelance composer and writer on music, interrupted only in the years 1961 to 1963 from the post of chief editor of Musical America. Helm, who wrote posts for the New York Times, lived from 1963 in Asolo and the last two years in Berlin.

Work

Everett Helm's compositional oeuvre comprises orchestral works, namely two piano concertos, first performed in 1951 and 1956, chamber music, songs and stage works, or the radio opera " The siege of tottenburg ", premiered in 1956, in German, " The Siege of Tottenburg ". As a music writer, he published along with numerous journal articles, studies on early Italian vocal music, 1960, as well as monographs on Béla Bartók in 1965, Franz Liszt, 1972, and Peter Tchaikovsky, 1976.