Priaulx Rainier
Priaulx ( Ivy ) Rainier ( born February 3, 1903 in Howick (South Africa ); † October 10, 1986 in Besse -en- Chandesse ) was a South African- British composer and university teacher.
Life
Priaulx Rainier had English - Huguenot parents. The early childhood she spent in a remote area near Zululand. From 1913 she studied violin at the South African College of Music in Cape Town. A scholarship enabled her in 1920 to study at the Royal Academy of Music in London. The Centre can be a composition teacher was John Blackwood McEwen. Rainier settled permanently in England, where she worked as a violinist and teacher. In 1937 she studied for 3 months with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. 1943 to 1961 she worked as a professor of composition and theory of harmony even at the Royal Academy. In 1952 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music and received a John Clementi Collard Fellowship. Priaulx Rainier in 1982 received an honorary doctorate in music from the University of Cape Town.
Work
The resulting 1939, 1944, premiered Priaulx Rainier String Quartet No. 1 made even more widely known as a composer. 1951 and recorded by the Amadeus Quartet on Decca Records. Some previous works include the Barbaric Dance Suite for Piano (1949 ). Many of her works were commissioned compositions, such as the Arts Council of Great Britain (Vision and Prayer for tenor and piano, 1973) and the BBC ( Quanta for oboe and string trio, 1962; Cello Concerto in 1964 with Jacqueline du Pré as performed the world premiere; Ploërmel for winds and percussion, 1973). The orchestral suite Aequora lunae was written for the Cheltenham Festival in 1967, the violin concerto Due canti e final for Yehudi Menuhin ( first performed in 1977 under the direction of Charles Groves ). The Concertante for Two Winds and Orchestra arrived at the BBC Proms 1981 premiere.
In the catalog of works by Rainier outweigh instrumental compositions, but they also created vocal music. For the singer Peter Pears Cycle for declamation for unaccompanied voice ( 1953) and The Bee Oracles for voice and five instruments (1970 ) was born. Pears was also a soloist with the world premiere of her Requiem at the Aldeburgh Festival in 1956, a composition for tenor and choir a cappella to a text by David Gascoyne.
The musical language of Priaulx Rainier is no flow of their time, such as the twelve-tone or serial music, clear zuzuordnen.Typisch is the lack of thematic structures, instead dominate short melodic and rhythmic patterns (some very complex ). The earlier works are three sound-based, in later works, increasing dissonance by giving preference to intervals such as minor ninth and small seconds as well as the formation of clusters, but tonal references remain recognizable.
The manuscripts of Priaulx Rainier be kept with a few exceptions in the University of Cape Town, other personal papers at the Royal Academy of Music.