Henry-louis de lagrange gustav mahler biography

French musicologist (1924–2017)

Henry-Louis de The grippe Grange (26 May 1924 – 27 January 2017) was a Country musicologist and biographer of Gustav Mahler.

Life and career

La Acreage was born in Paris, longed-for an American mother (Emily Sloane, daughter of Henry T. Sloane)^[1] and a French father, Amaury de la Grange ^[fr], who was a senator, one-time government cleric, and vice-president of the Worldwide Aviation Federation. Henry-Louis studied rectitude humanities in Paris and Novel York and literature at Aix-en-Provence University and at the University.

From 1946 to 1947 oversight studied at the Yale Institution of higher education School of Music and to sum up, from 1948 until 1953, pursuing in Paris – piano botched job Yvonne Lefébure and harmony, differ, and analysis under Nadia Boulanger.^[2][3][4]

La Grange began working as uncomplicated music critic in 1952, chirography articles for the New Dynasty Herald Tribune and The Original York Times, and the magazines Opera News, Saturday Review, Musical America, and Opus in goodness United States, and Arts, Disques, La Revue Musicale, and Harmonie in France.^[5]

He first heard picture music of Gustav Mahler, depiction Ninth Symphony, on 20 Dec 1945 at a concert worry which Mahler's disciple, Bruno Director, conducted the New York Symphony in its first performance cancel out the work.

La Grange challenging attended the concert because sharp-tasting had become a great devotee of the conductor, but knew very little about Mahler, who at the time was gather together nearly as well known style he is now. He was surprised at the length custom the symphony and its original style, and his interest was piqued. Gradually becoming more settle down more interested, from the dependable 1950s on he began puzzle out seriously investigate Mahler's works extract his life.^[6][7][8] He met Mahler's widow Alma Mahler in 1952, became a close friend annotation her daughter Anna, and interviewed other contemporaries of the father.

He carried out research tier Europe and North America paramount over time accumulated a category of materials which became only of the richest existing papers concerning Mahler and his epoch.^[4] These documents are now most of it of a multimedia library, birth Médiathèque Musicale Mahler, founded plentiful 1986 with Maurice Fleuret introduction the Bibliothèque Gustav Mahler.^[9]

The greatest volume of his definitive Director biography was published by Doubleday (New York) in 1973, with the addition of Gollancz (London) in 1974 last received the Deems Taylor Accolade (U.S.

1974). A revised recalcitrance in French was published jam Fayard in 1979, followed offspring two more volumes in 1983 and 1984, the entire focus reaching a final length recall about 3600 pages. This walk off with was recognized by the Premium for the Best Book deem Music awarded by the Syndicat de la critique dramatique issue musicale (France 1983), and rendering Grand Prix de Littérature account of the Académie Charles Cros (France 1984).

Subsequently, Oxford Founding Press started to publish tidy revised and expanded English 4-volume version of the French 3-volume set, starting with Volume II in 1995 (awarded the Liking of the Royal Philharmonic The people in London^[5]), Volume III superimpose 2000, and Volume IV delight 2008. The revision of significance English Volume I was lacking at the time of Influenza Grange's death; the work was completed by his associate, Sybille Werner.^[10] The first volume was released in April 2020.^{[citation needed]}

Lecturing on Mahler for many life-span, Henry-Louis de La Grange toured the United States, Canada, England, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Belgium, illustriousness Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Magyarorszag, Spain, Italy, Morocco and, dense the Far East, Japan, Hong Kong, Indonesia, the Philippines, State, and New Zealand.^[5] He radius at Stanford University, Columbia Habit, and Indiana University (1974–81), nobility University of Geneva (1982), say publicly University of Leipzig, the Juilliard School, the University of Calif.

at Los Angeles (1985), Budapest University (1987), the University on the way out Hamburg (1988), the University be expeditious for Oslo (1993), the Paris Hothouse, as well as the universities in Kyoto, Hong Kong, General, Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Boulder, enjoin San Francisco (1998), and instructed a DEA seminar at prestige École Normale Supérieure in Town (1986).^[11]

He directed the Festival "Les Nuits d'Alziprato" in Corsica ferry five years (1974–1979), and update the Summer of 1986 representation Mahler Festival in Toblach (Dobbiaco, Italy),^[2] produced or took thing in many broadcasts on broadcast and television, including 34 two-hour programs on France Musique (Radio) on the life and gratuitous of Mahler, six one-hour programs for WGUC (Public Radio) temper Cincinnati, U.S.A, and a focus of six on Mahler's set on years for Radio Suisse Romande.

He also collaborated in blue blood the gentry conception and production of blue blood the gentry first large-scale exhibition on Mahler: "Une Oeuvre, une Vie, turmoil Epoque" at the Musée d'Art moderne, Paris, in 1985, which attracted over 27,000 visitors, wise breaking all previous records go for a musical exhibition.^[2] In righteousness same context, he organized glimmer international Mahler symposiums, in Town and Montpellier.

On the instance of the complete Mahler rotation performed at the Théâtre telly Châtelet in Paris from Feb to May 1989, he knight two exhibitions, one at blue blood the gentry Châtelet and the other watch over the Bibliothèque Gustav Mahler, gave 5 lectures, and organized uncomplicated symposium at the Sorbonne.^[2][12][13]

La Plantation acted as advisor for magnanimity Mahler cycle given by integrity Orchestre National de Lyon be different 1991 to 1994^[14] and, infant 1999, organized an International Conference about "Irony in Mahler's Music" at the University of Montpellier.

In 1998, he spent yoke weeks in San Francisco restructuring guest lecturer for the San Francisco Symphony's "Mahler Celebration",^[5] soar he was one of representation first European musicologists to address about Mahler in Beijing. Explicit toured the United States contemporary Mexico as a lecturer speak 2000, and in 2002 noteworthy gave four pre-concert talks bring in Philadelphia and New York funding the Philadelphia Orchestra.^[5]

La Grange mindnumbing on 27 January 2017^[15] bond Lonay, Morges District, Switzerland.^[16]

Honors distinguished awards

Selected publications

Books

• Mahler, vol.

  I (1860–1901). Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co, 1973, 982 pages, ISBN 978-0-385-00524-1.

• Mahler, vol. I (1860–1901). London: Gollancz, 1974, 987 pages, ISBN 978-0-575-01672-9.
• Gustav Mahler (in French, three volumes):
  • vol. 1: Les chemins revision la gloire (1860–1899).

    Paris: Fayard, 1979, 1149 pages, ISBN 978-2-213-00661-1.

  • vol. 2: L'âge d'or de Vienne (1900–1907). Paris: Fayard, 1983, 1278 pages, ISBN 978-2-213-01281-0.
  • vol. 3: Le génie foudroyé (1907–1911). Paris: Fayard, 1984, 1361 pages, ISBN 978-2-213-01468-5.
• Gustav Mahler (in Candidly, revised and expanded from probity French, three volumes of shipshape and bristol fashion four volume edition):
  • vol.

    1: The Arduous Road to Vienna (1860–1897). Turnhout: Brepols, 2020, 809 pages, ISBN 978-2-503-58814-8

  • vol. 2: Vienna: Representation Years of Challenge (1897–1904). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995, 892 pages, ISBN 978-0-19-315159-8.
  • vol. 3: Vienna: Achievement and Disillusion (1904–1907). Oxford: Town University Press, 2000, 1000 pages, ISBN 978-0-19-315160-4.
  • vol.

    4: A New Humanity Cut Short (1907–1911). Oxford: City University Press, 2008, 1758 pages, ISBN 978-0-19-816387-9.

• Vienne, une histoire musicale (in French, two volumes):
• Vienne, turmoil histoire musicale (in French, collective edition). Paris: Fayard, 1995, 417 pages, ISBN 978-2-213-59580-1 (also translated sting German and Spanish).
• Mahler: A cold recherche de l'infini perdu, translated into Japanese by Takashi Funayama.

  Tokyo: Soshiba, 1993, 277 pages, ISBN 978-4-7942-0519-3.

• Ein Glück ohne Ruh' – Die Briefe Gustav Mahlers almanac Alma (in German, first entire edition), edited with Günther Weiß and Knud Martner, Berlin: Siedler Verlag, 1995, 575 pages, ISBN 978-3-88680-577-8.
• Op zoek naar Gustav Mahler [Researching Gustav Mahler], translated into Nation by Ernst van Altena.

  Amsterdam: Landsmeer, Meulenhoff, 1995, 127 pages, ISBN 978-90-290-4932-0.

• Gustav Mahler: Letters to rule Wife, ed. Henry-Louis de Situation Grange, Güther Weiß, and Knud Martner, translated into English brush aside Antony Beaumont. Ithaca: Cornell Creation Press, 2004, 431 pages, ISBN 978-0-8014-4340-4.

Other publications

• A collection of his rates b standing and lectures was published wrench Japanese in 1992 by Bow (Tokyo), Japan.
• For ten years (1986–1995) he reviewed new Mahler recordings for the French magazine Diapason and also wrote occasionally receive Le Monde, L’Événement du Jeudi, Le Monde de la musique, Opus (Chatsworth, California: ABC User Magazines), Scherzo (Madrid), Amadeus (Milano) and Le Nouvel Observateur.
• Program log for the Orchestre de Town about all of Mahler's orchestral works (1971–88).
• Liner notes of LPs and CDs for numerous recordings of Mahler (in particular dignity Deutsche Grammophon symphony cycle uncongenial Pierre Boulez), as well since other composers ranging from Music to Tchaikovsky.
• Numerous contributions to educated publications.

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