Joseph Horovitz

Joseph Horovitz

Joseph Horovitz (born May 26, 1926 in Vienna, Austria) is a British composer and conductor.

Biography

Horovitz's family emigrated to England in 1938. He studied music and modern languages at New College, Oxford, and later attended the Royal College of Music in London, studying composition with Gordon Jacob. He then undertook a year of further study with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. His musical career began in 1950, when he became music director at the Bristol Old Vic. He was subsequently active as a conductor of ballet and opera, and toured Europe and the United States. His music for television won him international acclaim: programmes featuring his work include "Lillie", "Rumpole of the Bailey", "The Search for the Nile", "The Flight Against Slavery", "Wessex Tales" and "Partners in Crime".

Horovitz has been Professor of Composition at the Royal College of Music since 1961, and a Council Member of the Composers' Guild of Great Britain since 1970. Between 1969 and 1996 he belonged to the board of the Performing Rights Society.

From 1962, Horovitz concentrated increasingly on composition. His works include 16 ballets, including "Alice in Wonderland" (1953), 2 one-act operas ("The Dumb Wife", libretto Peter Shaffer; "Gentlemen’s Island", libretto Gordon Snell), and concertos for violin, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, euphonium, tuba and percussion, as well as a popular and often performed jazz concerto for harpsichord. A large number of his works have been written for wind orchestra and brass band. In 1959, he was awarded the Commonwealth Medal, and since then he has received many other awards for his compositions.

Works

Orchestral Works

*1948 Concertante for Clarinet and Strings
*1963 Trumpet Concerto
*1971 Sinfonietta for Light Orchestra
*1972 Horizon Overture
*1973 Valse
*1976 Bassoon Concerto
*1977 Jubilee Toy Symphony
*1993 Oboe Concerto

Works for Wind Orchestra and Brass Band

*1964 Three Pieces From "Music Hall Suite" for brass band
*1970 Sinfonietta for brass band
**1. Allegro
**2. Lento moderato
**3. Con brio
*1972 Euphonium Concerto for euphonium and wind orchestra
**1. Moderato
**2. Lento
**3. Con moto
*1975 "The Dong with a Luminous Nose" for brass band
*1977 "Samson" for baritone, mixed chorus and brass band
*1983 "Ballet for Band" for brass band
*1984 "Bacchus on Blue Ridge": Divertimento for wind orchestra
**1. Moderato
**2. Blues
**3. Vivo
*1985 "Concertino Classico" for 2 cornets (or trumpets) and brass band
**1. Con brio
**2. Larghetto
**3. Allegro rustico
*1991 "Fete Galante" for wind orchestra
**1. Pavane
**2. Menuet
**3. Bourée des masques
*1992 "Dance Suite"
**1. Allegro
**2. Andantino
**3. Vivace
*"Ad Astra"
*"Commedia Dell'Arte"
*"Lillie" Theme
*"Theme and Co-Operation" for brass band
*"Tuba Concerto" for tuba und brass band
**1. Allegro
**2. Andante
**3. Con Moto
*"Wind-Harp"

Film scores

*1963 "Tarzan's Three Challenges"

Other works

*1952 "Les Femmes d'Alger": Ballet in one act
*1953 "The Dumb Wife": Comic opera in one act
*1953 "Alice in Wonderland": Ballet in two acts
*1958 "Concerto for Dancers": Ballet in one act
*1958 "Gentleman's Island" (libretto by Gordon Snell) in English or German for tenor, baritone and chamber orchestra
*1961 "Horrortorio" (words by Alistair Sampson from a scenario by Maurice Richardson) for soloists, chorus and orchestra. It was performed at the Hoffnung Astronautical Musical Festival
*1962 "Fantasia on a Theme of Couperin" for wind nonet
*1965 "Let's Make a Ballet": Ballet in one act
*1970 "Captain Noah and his Floating Zoo": Cantata (text by Michael Flanders) for mixed chorus with piano, double bass and percussion
*1970 "Lady Macbeth Scena" for mezzo-soprano and piano
*1975 "Summer Sunday": a comical-tragical-ecological Pastoral for mixed choir and piano
*1980 "Miss Carter Wore Pink": Ballet in one act

Chamber Music

*1964 "Music Hall Suite" for brass quintet
**1. Soubrette Song
**2. Trick-cyclists
**3. Adagio-team
**4. Soft shoe shuffle
**5. Les Girls
*1976 "Brass Polka" for brass quartet
*1969 String Quartet No. 5
*Sonatina, op. 3 for oboe and piano
*Quartet for oboe and strings, op. 18
*"Ghetto Song" for solo guitar
*1981 Clarinet Sonatina

External links

* [http://www.britishacademy.com/index.php?option=com_memberprofile&task=view&id=31&Itemid=84&pContactID=720 Biography]
* [http://www.chesternovello.com/Default.aspx?TabId=2431&State_2905=2&composerId_2905=723 Joseph Horovitz's homepage at Novello & Co.]


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