Peggy Glanville-Hicks

Peggy Glanville - Hicks ( born December 29, 1912 in Melbourne, † June 25, 1990 Sydney ) was an Australian composer.

After studying composition at Conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Fritz Hart was Glanville - Hicks student Ralph Vaughan Williams' at the Royal College of Music in London, Nadia Boulanger in Paris and by Egon Wellesz in Vienna. She moved to the United States, where she worked as a music critic, Secretary General and - looked Director of the Composer's Forum at Columbia University - 1950-1960. She was also a member of the Secretariat of the International Music Fund of UNESCO.

Glanville - Hicks has composed five operas and eight ballets, a symphony, a Sinfonietta, a flute, a viola and a piano concerto, numerous chamber works, choral music, songs, song cycles, and film scores.

Works

  • Three Gymnopedie
  • Sinfonia da Pacifica
  • Letters from Morocco
  • Etruscan Concerto
  • Concerto Romantico
  • Caedmon, opera, 1933
  • The Transposed Heads. A Legend of India, opera based on the story The Transposed Heads by Thomas Mann, 1953
  • The Masque of the Wild Man, Ballet
  • The Glittering Gate, opera, 1957
  • Nausicaa, opera, 1960
  • Saul and the Witch of Endor, Fernsehballett, 1964
  • Sappho, opera, 1965
  • Tragic Celebration ( Jephthah 's Daughter ), Ballet, 1966
Integrated Authority File
267664
de