Jonathan Harvey (composer)

Jonathan Harvey ( May 3, 1939 in Sutton Coldfield, England; † December 4, 2012 in Lewes, England ) was a British composer.

Life

Harvey studied at St John 's College (Cambridge) philosophy, but took the advice of Benjamin Britten at the same time lessons with Erwin Stein and Hans Keller. Early musical influences came from the music of Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, Olivier Messiaen and Britten. During his graduate studies at Glasgow University Harvey was a cellist in the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. During this time he began to be interested in the music of Karlheinz Stockhausen, about which he wrote a book in 1975.

In 1969, he got a " Harkness Fellowship " of the City of New York for the Princeton University, where he met Milton Babbitt, who also exerted a strong influence on him. In the 1980s, Harvey worked at the invitation of Pierre Boulez at IRCAM. There, he produced, among others, the live electronics for his orchestral work Speakings, which, as the title suggests, should bring to speak the instruments ( make an orchestra speak ).

In 1993 his opera The Inquest of Love at English National Opera in London, his opera Wagner Dream at the Grand Théâtre de la ville de Luxembourg premiered in 2007.

Harvey was a guest lecturer at the University of Oxford, Imperial College London and at Sussex University. From 2005 to 2008 he was a " Composer in Association " of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and 2009 "Composer in Residence " of the " Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival ".

Works

Writings

The Music of Stockhausen: An Introduction. University of California Press, Berkeley / Los Angeles 1975, ISBN 0-520-02311-0.
Inner Light (3). In: The Musical Times 117, no 1596, February 1976, pp. 125-127.
Ferneyhough. Edition Peters, London 1981.
New Directions: A Manifesto. In: Soundings: A Music Journal. 11 (Winter) 1983, pp. 2-13.
Music and inspiration. Edited by Michael Downes. Faber and Faber, London / New York 1999, ISBN 0-571-20025-7.
In Quest of Spirit: Thoughts on Music. The Bloch Lectures. With CD. University of California Press, Berkeley / Los Angeles 1999, ISBN 0-520-21392-0. French edition: Pensées sur la musique: la quête de l' esprit. Translated by Mireille Tansman Zanuttini in cooperation and with an introduction by Danielle Cohen- Levinas. L' Harmattan, Paris 2007, ISBN 2-296-03753-4.
Spanish: Música e inspiración. Translated by Carme Castells. Global Rhythm Press, Barcelona 2008, ISBN 84-96879-31-3 978-84-96879-31-7/ISBN.

Compositions (selection )

Dialogue and Song for cello (1965/1977)
Four Images After Yeats for piano (1969 )
Piano Trio ( 1971)
String Quartet No.. 1 (1977 )
O Jesus noun Dulce for choir ( 1979)
Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco for live electronics and tape ( 1980)
Mythic Figures ( 1980)
Bhakti for 15 players and tape ( 1982)
Curve with Plateaux for cello (1982 )
Flight- Elegy for Violin and Piano (1983-1989)
Nataraja for flute, piccolo and piano (1983 )
Night Song for soprano, piano and tape (1984 )
Come Holy Ghost for choir ( 1984)
Ricercare una Melodia for trumpet, cello, flute, oboe and trombone with tape delay system (1984 )
Song Offerings for soprano and ensemble ( 8 players ) ( 1985)
Forms of Emptiness for choir ( 1986)
God is our Refuge for choir and organ (1986 )
Madonna of Winter and Spring for orchestra, synthesizers and electronics ( 1986)
Lauds for choir and cello ( 1987)
From Silence for soprano, 6 players and tape ( 1988)
String Quartet No.. 2 (1988)
Three Sketches for Cello (1989 )
Ritual Melodies for tape ( 1989-90)
Cello Concerto ( 1990)
Fantasia for organ (1991 )
Serenade in homage to Mozart for 10 wind instruments ( 1991)
Scena for violin and ensemble ( 9 players ) ( 1992)
Lotuses for Flute Quartet (1992 )
Chant for cello (viola) (1992-1994)
The Riot for flute, piccolo, bass clarinet and piano (1993 )
One Evening ... for soprano, mezzo - soprano, ensemble ( 8 players ) and live electronics ( 1993-1994)
The Angels for chorus (1994 )
Tombeau de Messiaen for piano and tape ( 1994)
Advaya for cello, keyboard and electronics (1994 )
Dum Trans isset Sabbatum for choir ( 1995)
String Quartet No.. 3 (1995)
Percussion Concerto ( 1997)
Sufi Dance for Guitar (1997)
Wheel of Emptiness for ensemble ( 16 players ) (1997 )
Ashes Dance Back for choir and electronics (1997)
Death of Light / Light of Death for ensemble (5 players) to Grünewald's Isenheim Altarpiece (1998)
Tranquil Abiding for small orchestra (1998)
Valley of Aosta for 13 players and electronics ( 1998)
Marahi for choir ( 1999)
The Summer Cloud's Awakening for choir, flute, cello and electronics ( 2001)
Verse for piano (2000)
Jubilus for viola and ensemble ( 2003)
String Quartet No.. 4 with live electronics (2003)
String Trio ( 2004)
Body Mundala for Orchestra ( 2006)
Wagner Dream, opera (2007)
Other Presences for trumpet and electronics ( 2008)
Imaginings for cello and live electronics
Philia 's Dream for cello and synthesizer
Global Ethic for narrator, chorus and orchestra (2011)

Literature (selection )

Chronologically here also the most important foreign-language literature

Griffiths, Paul: Jonathan Harvey, in: New Sounds, New Personalities - British Composers of the 1980s in Conversation with Paul Griffiths pp. 46-53, 1985 London: Faber & Faber
Martha crushing: analysis of electroacoustic music with the help of sonagrams. European University Studies XXXVI: Musicology, No. 118 Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3- 631-47427 -X.
Martha crushing: the tension between archaism and modernity: ritual in the Electronic Listening and electro-acoustic music. In: Barbara Barthelme, and Helga de la Motte- Haber ( eds.): Music and Ritual: Five Congress posts, two posts and a free seminar report. Publications of the Institute for New Music and Music Education, Darmstadt, no. 39 Schott, Mainz 1999. Pp. 89-109.
Jörn Florian Fuchs: Buddhist dreams of light and electronics: Jonathan Harvey's " Wagner Dream" at the Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg premiered (6 June 2007 ). In: Wagner Spectrum 3, No. 2 /2007. Pp. 185-186.

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