Henry-Louis de La Grange

Henry -Louis de La Grange ( born May 26, 1924 in Paris ) is a musicologist and biographer of Gustav Mahler.

Life

Henry -Louis de La Grange was born to an American mother (Emily Sloane ) and a French father, Amaury de la Grange, the senator, briefly Minister of State, and Vice President of the International Aviation Federation was. He studied humanities in Paris and New York, and literature at the University of Aix -en- Provence and at the Sorbonne. From 1946 to 1947 he studied at the Faculty of Music at Yale University, and then, from 1948 to 1953, privately in Paris - piano with Yvonne Lefébure, harmony, counterpoint and analysis with Nadia Boulanger.

La Grange began his career as a music critic in 1952, and he wrote for Opera News, Saturday Review, New York Herald Tribune, New York Times, Musical America, Opus in the United States, and Arts, Disques, La Revue Musicale, and harmony in France ..

For the first time heard La Grange the music of Gustav Mahler on December 20, 1945 the Ninth Symphony, as the Mahler Bruno Walter pupils the first performance of the New York Philharmonic conducted this work. He had attended the concert because he was a great admirer of the conductor, but he knew very little about Mahler, who was not nearly as well known as now. La Grange was surprised by the length of the symphony and the unusual style, and his curiosity was piqued. He was interested in gradually more and more for the composer, and since 1953 his main interest is the life and work of Gustav Mahler. His research led him to most major libraries in Europe and North America. He sought and consulted the living witnesses of Mahler's life and time, Alma Mahler learned in 1952, and became a close friend of her daughter Anna. During these years of research, he amassed a huge archive of documents of all kinds, which represents one of the richest collections on Mahler and his epoch. Its data files and collection of autographs, documents and photographs now form the core of Mahler multimedia library, which he founded in 1986 together with Maurce Fleuret. Their large inventories of autographs, documents, books and recordings are now available for musicians, students and journalists from around the world.

The first volume of his definitive biography Mahler was published by Doubleday in New York in 1973 and 1974 by Victor Gollancz Ltd.. in London. An extended and updated French version was released in 1979 by Fayard. At the same publisher followed a second and third volume, the book includes about 3,600 pages. Unanimously hailed as an international musicological event received this monumental work the Deems Taylor Price (U.S. 1974), the award for best music book awarded by the Syndicat de la critique dramatique et musicale (France 1983), and the Grand Prix de Littérature Musicale of the Académie Charles Cros (France, 1984). Volume II of the revised, updated and expanded four -volume English version of " Gustav Mahler" was published in 1995 by Oxford University Press in England and the USA and was awarded the following year with the award of the Royal Philharmonic Society in London. Volume III was published in 2000, and Volume IV in 2008.

For many years, Henry -Louis de La Grange lectures on Mahler, and he traveled for the United States, Canada, England, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Belgium, Holland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Spain, Italy, Morocco and the Far East, Japan, Hong Kong, Indonesia, the Philippines, Australia, New Zealand, etc. in addition, he has given guest lectures at Stanford University, Columbia University, Indiana University (1974-1981), the University of Geneva (1982 ), the University of Leipzig, the Juilliard School, the University of California in Los Angeles ( 1985), the University of Budapest (1987 ), the University of Hamburg (1988 ), the University of Oslo ( 1993), the Paris Conservatory, and at the Universities of Kyoto, Hong Kong, Wellington, Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Boulder, and San Francisco ( 1998), and he taught a DEA seminar at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris (1986).

He also led the festival " Les Nuits d' Alziprato " in Corsica for five years (1974-1979), and in the summer of 1986 Mahler Festival in Toblach ( Dobbiaco, Italy). La Grange produced or participated in many programs in part on radio and television, including 34 two-hour programs for France- Musique (Radio ) about the life and work of Mahler, six one-hour programs for WGUC ( Public Radio ) in Cincinnati, USA, and a series of six over the last few years, Mahler for Radio Suisse Romande. He also had a part in the conception and production of the first major exhibition on Mahler: "Une oeuvre, Une vie, une Epoque " at the Musée d' Art Moderne, Paris, in 1985, the angezog over 27,000 visitors and so all previous records for a musical exhibition broke. In this context, he organized two international symposia Mahler in Paris and Montpellier, and two other exhibitions in Paris at the Châtelet and the Bibliothèque Gustav Mahler occasion of the performance of the complete Mahler cycle from February to May 1989 ( 5 lectures and another symposium at the Sorbonne ).

Henry -Louis de La Grange acted as advisor for the Mahler cycle with the Orchestre National de Lyon in the years 1991-1993 and, in 1999, organized an international symposium on "The irony in Mahler's music " at the University of Montpellier. In 1998, he spent three weeks in San Francisco as a guest lecturer for "Mahler Celebration" of the orchestra, and he was one of the first European musicologists, who gave a speech in Beijing on Mahler. He toured as a lecturer throughout the United States and Mexico in 2000, and in 2002 he gave four -concert lectures in Philadelphia and New York for the Philadelphia Orchestra.

Honors and Awards

  • Professor title, awarded by the Austrian Government, 1988
  • A collection of essays on Mahler eminented of scholars was published in 1997 as a Festschrift in honor of the seventieth birthday of Henry -Louis de La Grange.
  • Charles Flint Kellogg Award in Art and Literature at Bard College, Annandale -on-Hudson, NY, 2002
  • Order of Officer of the Order of the Legion of Honour (2006)
  • Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st Class (2010)
  • IGMG Vienna, Gold Medal of the International Gustav Mahler Society (2010)
  • Honorary Doctor of Music, The Juilliard School, 2010

Publications (selection)

  • Mahler, Volume I ( 1860-1901 ). Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co, 1973, 982 pages, ISBN 9,780,385,005,241th
  • Mahler, Volume I ( 1860-1901 ). London: Gollancz, 1974, 987 pages, ISBN 9,780,575,016,729th
  • Gustav Mahler ( French, 3 volumes): Volume 1: Les chemins de la gloire ( 1860-1899 ). Paris: Fayard, 1979, 1149 pages, ISBN 9,782,213,006,611th
  • Volume 2: L'âge d'or de Vienne ( 1900-1907 ). Paris: Fayard, 1983, 1278 pages, ISBN 9,782,213,012,810th
  • Volume 3: Le genie foudroyé ( 1907-1911 ). Paris: Fayard, 1984, 1361 pages, ISBN 9,782,213,014,685th
  • Volume 2: Vienna: The Years of Challenge ( 1897-1904 ). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995, 892 pages, ISBN 9,780,193,151,598th
  • Volume 3: Vienna: Triumph and Disillusion ( 1904-1907 ). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000, 1000 pages, ISBN 9,780,193,151,604th
  • Volume 4: A New Life Cut Short ( 1907-1911 ). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008, 1758 pages, ISBN 9,780,198,163,879th
  • Volume 1: 1100-1848. Arles: Bernard Coutaz, 1990, 261 pages, ISBN 9,782,877,120,081th
  • Volume 2: 1848 à nos jours. Arles: Bernard Coutaz, 1991, 261 pages, ISBN 9,782,877,120,470th

More Releases

A collection of his articles and lectures in 1992 in Japanese ARC (Tokyo ), Japan published. For ten years (1986-1995) he -reviewed new Mahler recordings for the French magazine Diapason, and he also wrote for random, or Le Monde, L' Evénement du Jeudi, Le Monde de la Musique, Opus ( Chatsworth, California: ABC Consumer Magazines ), Scherzo (Madrid ), Amadeus (Milano) and Le Nouvel Observateur. Program booklet posts for the Orchestre de Paris of all Mahler's orchestral works ( 1971-88 ). Contributions for LPs and CDs for numerous recordings of Mahler and other composers from Brahms to Tschaikowsly. Numerous contributions to literature.

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