Harry Burleigh

Henry " Harry " T ( hacker ) Burleigh ( born December 2, 1866 in Erie / Pennsylvania, † December 12, 1949 in Stamford / Connecticut ) was an African-American classical singer (baritone ), arranger, composer and publisher and is considered the " father the spirituals ". He was the first black composer to the music of the blacks also made classically trained musicians accessible by the nature of his arrangements.

Burleigh visited the Grammar High School his hometown and sang in churches and synagogues next to the region Erie. He took singing lessons with Italo Campanini and Rafael Joseffy and was recorded in the second experiment conducted by Antonín Dvořák at the National Conservatory of Music. He studied here singing with Christian Fritsch and music theory with Rubin Goldmark, John White and Max Spicker. In Dvorak he had no lessons, but he worked from 1893 as a copyist and assistant for him. He also played bass and timpani in led by Dvorak and Frank Van der Stucken Orchestra of the Conservatory.

In 1894 he became solo singers on the New York St. George's Protestant Episcopal Church - he had 52 years held this position. From 1900 to 1925 he was also a soloist at Temple Emanu El. He toured America and Europe and has appeared before King Edward VII on. He also gave singing lessons at the New York Will Marion Cook 's School of Music, where Enrico Caruso, Roland Hayes, Marian Anderson and Paul Robeson took lessons with him.

From 1911 Burleigh was a lecturer in the New York office of the music publisher Ricordi. Including the famous Deep River - - that were sung by singers such as Lucrezia Bori and John McCormack Ernestine Schumann - Heink Here his arrangements of American songs and spirituals published. In addition to spirituals and songs Burleigh also composed instrumental works mainly for the domestic music use.

Werkausgaben

  • Negro minstrel melodies, New York: G. Schirmer, 1900
  • Plantation melodies, old and new, New York: G. Schirmer, 1901
  • 6 Plantation Melodies, 1901
  • Plantation songs, New York: William Maxwell, 1905
  • African American folksong, New York 1914
  • 2 Negro spirituals, New York: G. Schirmer, 1914
  • 3 Negro spirituals, fNew York: G. Schirmer, 1916, 3 volumes
  • Album of Negro Spirituals, 1917, 1969
  • Negro folk songs, New York: G. Ricordi, 1921-1924. 4 volumes
  • Old hymnal songs: words and melody from the state of Georgia, New Yor: Century Co., 1929
  • Negro folk songs, London: Schott, 1930
  • Negro spirituals, New York: AMS Press, 1959, 1975
  • The spirituals of Harry T. Burleigh, New York: Belwin - Mills, 1984

Swell

  • AfriClassicals - Henry "Harry" T. Burleigh (1866-1949)
  • Allmusic - Harry (Henry) Thacker Burleigh
  • The Harry T. Burleigh Society - Timeline
Erie (Pennsylvania) Stamford (Connecticut) Congregation Emanu-El of New York John McCormack (Tenor) Ernestine Schumann-Heink Integrated Authority File
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