The composer Elisabeth Lutyens and her second husband, the conductor and music programmer Edward Clark, were innovators in composition, conducting, programming, teaching, and music administration in Britain between 1918 and 1983. Controversial in their professional and personal views and tastes, their achievements obscured by layers of anecdote and some self-inflicted reputational harm, this book critically re-assesses their roles as cornerstones of structures and developments in British music that we now take for granted. Key to understanding their central roles in orchestrating musical progress is the ambiguous role of influence in their work and the intimate connections between British and European music. This study critically charts their professional lives in music, taking a holistic approach to contextualise Lutyens and Clark's multifaceted work in music historically, music-analytically, and culturally.
By:
Annika Forkert (Royal Northern College of Music Manchester)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 250mm,
Width: 175mm,
Spine: 19mm
Weight: 610g
ISBN: 9781009337359
ISBN 10: 1009337351
Series: Music in Context
Pages: 300
Publication Date: 19 October 2023
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction; 1. Conducting personae. Clark as a conductor, 1910–1962; 2. Composing influence. Lutyens's compositional beginnings, 1938–1961; 3. Crafting music. Lutyens's scores for film and television, 1944–1975; 4. Collaborating to control. Clark and Lutyens as administrators and organisers, 1939–1960; 5. Completing the lives. Lutyens after Clark, 1962– 983; Afterword; Bibliography; Main archives; Index.
Annika Forkert is a musicologist and Lecturer in Music at the Royal Northern College of Music. She publishes on post-tonal, modern, and audio-visual British music with a focus on Elisabeth Lutyens, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Rebecca Clarke; and on microtonal music. Her research appears in English and German.
