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'Peggy Glanville-Hicks' (December 29 1912, Melbourne–June 25 1990, Sydney) was an Australian composer.
She spent the years from 1931 to 1936 as a student at the Royal College of Music in London, where she studied with Arthur Benjamin, Constant Lambert, Sir Malcolm Sargent and Ralph Vaughan Williams among others. Her teachers also included Egon Wellesz. She was later to claim that the idea which opens his fourth symphony was taken from her, and it reappears in her 1950s opera ''The Transposed Heads''. During this period (between 1949 and 1958) she was also a critic for the ''New York Herald Tribune''.
Between 1938 and 1949 she was married to British composer Stanley Bate. [1]
After leaving England she also lived also in Greece from 1950 to 1976, and in the United States, where she asked George Antheil to revise his ''Ballet mécanique'' for a modern percussion ensemble for a concert she helped to organize before returning to Australia in the 1980s. [2] She lost her sight in later life. She was a close friend of the expatriate writer and composer Paul Bowles.
Important works in her output include the ''Sinfonia da Pacifica'' (1952-53), ''Etruscan Concerto'' (1954?), ''Concerto romantico'' (1957), and her ''Harp sonata'' which was premiered by Nicanor Zabaleta in 1953 as well as several operas. The most well known of these are ''The Transposed Heads'' in six scenes with a libretto by Thomas Mann which premiered in Louisville on March 27 1954 [3] and ''Nausicaa'' with a libretto prepared together with Robert Graves and based on his novel ''Homer's Daughter'', which was composed in 1956 and premiered in Athens in 1961. [4] Her last opera, ''Sappho'', was composed in 1963 for San Francisco Opera, with hopes that Maria Callas would sing the title role. However, the company rejected the work and it has never been produced.[5]
1. Papers of Peggy Glanville-Hicks MS9083
2. ''American Mavericks'', Program Notes
3. Opera Glass
4. The Australian Music Centre
5. 'Buried symphonies score a chance at resurrection', ''The Age'', July 27, 2007.
★ Beckett, Wendy (1992). ''Peggy Glanville-Hicks.'' Pymble, NSW: Angus & Robertson. ISBN 0-207-17057-6.
★ Hayes, Deborah (1990). ''Peggy Glanville-Hicks : A Bio-bibliography''. New York: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-26422-8.
★ Murdoch, James (2002). ''Peggy Glanville-Hicks: A Transposed Life.'' Hillsdale, New York: Pendragon Press. ISBN 1-57647-077-6.
★ Australian Music Centre Has a search page/bibliography about Glanville-Hicks and a biography.
★ Culture and Recreation page Glanville-Hicks biography
★ Interview with James Murdoch
★ Worklist
★ Talk about Glanville-Hicks given by James Murdoch
★ "Peggy" movie in pre-production about Glanville-Hicks
| Contents |
| Biography |
| Music |
| References |
| Books |
| External links and Resources |
Biography
She spent the years from 1931 to 1936 as a student at the Royal College of Music in London, where she studied with Arthur Benjamin, Constant Lambert, Sir Malcolm Sargent and Ralph Vaughan Williams among others. Her teachers also included Egon Wellesz. She was later to claim that the idea which opens his fourth symphony was taken from her, and it reappears in her 1950s opera ''The Transposed Heads''. During this period (between 1949 and 1958) she was also a critic for the ''New York Herald Tribune''.
Between 1938 and 1949 she was married to British composer Stanley Bate. [1]
After leaving England she also lived also in Greece from 1950 to 1976, and in the United States, where she asked George Antheil to revise his ''Ballet mécanique'' for a modern percussion ensemble for a concert she helped to organize before returning to Australia in the 1980s. [2] She lost her sight in later life. She was a close friend of the expatriate writer and composer Paul Bowles.
Music
Important works in her output include the ''Sinfonia da Pacifica'' (1952-53), ''Etruscan Concerto'' (1954?), ''Concerto romantico'' (1957), and her ''Harp sonata'' which was premiered by Nicanor Zabaleta in 1953 as well as several operas. The most well known of these are ''The Transposed Heads'' in six scenes with a libretto by Thomas Mann which premiered in Louisville on March 27 1954 [3] and ''Nausicaa'' with a libretto prepared together with Robert Graves and based on his novel ''Homer's Daughter'', which was composed in 1956 and premiered in Athens in 1961. [4] Her last opera, ''Sappho'', was composed in 1963 for San Francisco Opera, with hopes that Maria Callas would sing the title role. However, the company rejected the work and it has never been produced.[5]
References
1. Papers of Peggy Glanville-Hicks MS9083
2. ''American Mavericks'', Program Notes
3. Opera Glass
4. The Australian Music Centre
5. 'Buried symphonies score a chance at resurrection', ''The Age'', July 27, 2007.
Books
★ Beckett, Wendy (1992). ''Peggy Glanville-Hicks.'' Pymble, NSW: Angus & Robertson. ISBN 0-207-17057-6.
★ Hayes, Deborah (1990). ''Peggy Glanville-Hicks : A Bio-bibliography''. New York: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-26422-8.
★ Murdoch, James (2002). ''Peggy Glanville-Hicks: A Transposed Life.'' Hillsdale, New York: Pendragon Press. ISBN 1-57647-077-6.
External links and Resources
★ Australian Music Centre Has a search page/bibliography about Glanville-Hicks and a biography.
★ Culture and Recreation page Glanville-Hicks biography
★ Interview with James Murdoch
★ Worklist
★ Talk about Glanville-Hicks given by James Murdoch
★ "Peggy" movie in pre-production about Glanville-Hicks
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