Obra de Cesare Maccari (1840-1919), pintor italià (1)
- Recordatori de Charles Wood -
En el dia de la commemoració del seu 93è aniversari de decés
Parlem de Pintura...
Cesare Maccari (Siena, 9 de maig de 1840 - Roma, 7 d agost de 1919) va ser un pintor i escultor italià. Es va formar inicialment amb l'escultor Tito Sarrocchi i posteriorment a l'Acadèmia de Belles Arts de Siena. Posteriorment, es va traslladar a Florència on va entrar en contacte amb l'obra de Leonardo da Vinci. També en aquell primer període va guanyar una beca d'estudis amb la qual es va traslladar a Roma, ciutat on va treballar en la decoració de l'església del Santissimo Sudario. A partir del 1872 i fins el 1882 va treballar al servei de mecenes d'art com el francès Adolphe Goupil. Entre els anys 1882 i fins a l'entorn del 1900 va realitzar nombrosos frescs així com treballs per a diverses esglésies italianes. Cesare Maccari va morir a Roma l'agost de 1919.
Parlem de Música...
Charles Wood (Armagh, 15 de juny de 1866 - Cambridge, 12 de juliol de 1926) va ser un compositor i professor irlandès. Es va formar com a corista a la Catedral d’Armagh on també va rebre formació a la seva escola. A partir del 1880 va rebre classes d’harmonia i contrapunt de l’organista T.O. Marks i va rebre l’estímul del seu germà gran i músic William Wood (1859-1895) per tal que es dediqués professionalment a la música. El 1883 va estudiar amb Parry i Stanford rebent poc després un premi al Selwyn College de Cambridge. El 1888 va ser nomenat professor d’harmonia de la Royal College of Music i el 1889 triat lector en harmonia i contrapunt a Caius. A Cambridge va ser premiat amb diverses condecoracions i va ser assistent de Stanford com a director de la Cambridge University Musical Society (1888-1894). En reconeixement a la seva contribució a la vida musical del seu país, el 1904 va rebre un doctorat honorari de la Universitat de Leeds i més tard de la Universitat d’Oxford. El 1924 va ser nomenat professor de música de Cambridge en substitució del seu mestre Stanford, mort aquell any. Charles Wood va morir a Cambridge el juliol de 1926.
OBRA:
(selective list)
Vocal secular:
Stage:
Ion (incid music, Euripides), 1890;
Iphigenia in Tauris (incid music, Euripides), 1894;
A Scene from Pickwick (chbr op), 1921;
The Family Party (chbr op), 1923
Solo songs:
The Splendour Falls (A. Tennyson), 1886;
Up-hill (C. Rossetti), 1886, also with orch;
Goldthred's Song (W. Scott), 1886;
They are All Gone into the World of Light (H. Vaughan), 1888;
Lament of an Irish Mother (F.D. Hemans), 1890;
The Windflower (H. Boulton), 1890;
Darest Thou Now, O Soul (W. Whitman);
By the Bivouac's Fitful Flame (Whitman), 1897;
O Captain! My Captain (Whitman), 1898;
Ethiopia Saluting the Colours (Whitman), 1898, also with orch
Folksong arrs.:
Irish Folk Songs (A.P. Graves) (1897);
Irish County Songs, vols. i–iii (A.P. Graves and P.J. McCall) (1914–28);
Anglo-Irish Folk-Songs, vol. i (1931), collab. P. Gregory;
many folksong arrs. for mixed voices
Many part-songs, madrigals, unison songs
Vocal religiosa:
SATB and organ unless otherwise stated
St Mark Passion, Tr, T, Bar, B, SATB, org, 1920
Mass, F, SATB, org, 1922
Cants:
Spring's Summons (A.P. Graves), S, T, Bar, SATB, orch, 1885;
Song of Welcome (Sir F. Cook), SATB, vn, hp, org, RCM 1887;
Psalm 104, S, A, T, B, Bar, SATB, org, orch, 1886–7;
Unto Thee Will I Cry, S, SATB, org, str, 1889;
Ode to the West Wind (P.B. Shelley), T, SATB, orch, 1890;
Music: an Ode (A.C. Swinburne), S, SATB, orch, 1892–3;
The White Island (R. Herrick), S, A, T, B, SATBSATB, orch, 1894;
On Time (J. Milton), SATB, orch, 1897–8, 1898;
Dirge for Two Veterans (W. Whitman), B, SATB, orch, 1900–01, 1901 (1901);
The Song of the Tempest (W. Scott), S, SATB, orch, 1902;
A Ballad of Dundee (W.E. Aytoun), B, SATB, orch; ?1904;
Eden Spirits (E.B. Browning), female vv, pf, ?1915
Anthems:
Be Thou Exalted, 1882;
O Lord, Rebuke Me Not, 1885;
Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow, SATBSATB, 1886;
O God of Hosts, the Mighty Lord, SSAATTBB, 1886;
Through the Day Thy Love has Spared Us, SATB, 1886;
O Rex gloriae, SATB, 1889;
Try Me, O God, ?1890;
Precamini felicitatem, 1890;
I Will Arise, ?1893–4;
Heaven, 1898;
Oculi omnium, SATB, 1905;
I Will Call Upon God, ATB, 1905;
Glorious and Powerful God, 1910;
Never Weather Beaten Sail, 1910;
Great Lord of Lords, ATBATB, ?1912;
O Thou, the Central Orb, ?1914–15;
Summer Ended, 1917;
Expectans expectavi, 1919, also with orch;
Haec dies, SSATBB, 1919;
Hail Gladdening Light, SATBSATB (1919);
Glory and Honour and Laud, SSAATTBB (1925);
Tis the Day of Resurrection, SATBSATB (1927);
How Dazzling Fair (1929); Father All Holy, SATBSATB (1929);
O King Most High, SATBSATB (1932);
Once He Came in Blessing, SATBSATB (1935)
Other church music:
Many settings of the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis;
Mag and Nunc settings:
E (1891);
D (1898);
c (1900);
F (1908);
Tones VI, V, ?1910–11;
G (1911);
E (1913);
A (1915);
F ‘Collegium Regale’, SATBSATB, 1915;
E (Sternhold and Hopkins metrical version), 1918;
G, SATBSATB, 1915;
Nunc (Lat., Eng.), B , SSATBB, 1916;
Nunc (Lat., Eng.), a, SSATTB, 1916;
Tones IV, I (1923);
E (1927);
Founded on melodies of Pss civ and cxxxlv (Genevan psalter) (1927)
Communion Service Settings:
Phrygian mode (1923);
c, SATB (1927);
F ‘Missa Sancta Patricii’ (Ionian mode), 1922
TeD, Bs, Jub Deo and Nicene Creed settings;
hymn tunes, carol arrangements
Instrumental:
Orch:
Pf Conc., F, 1885–6;
Much Ado about Nothing, ov., 1889;
Iphigenia in Tauris, suite, ?1894;
Patrick Sarsfield: Sym. Variations on an Irish Air, 1899
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Chbr.:
Str qts:
d, 1885;
E ‘The Highgate’, 1892–3;
a, 1911–12;
E ‘The Harrogate’, 1912;
F, 1914–15;
D, ?1915–16;
Variations on an Irish Folk Song, str qt, ?1917;
numerous individual qt movts
Other chbr:
Sonata, G, vn, pf, 1886;
Sonata, A, vn, pf, n.d.;
Septet, c, cl, bn, hn, str, 1889;
Quintet, F, fl, ob, cl, hn, bn, 1891
Various movts for pf trio, vn and pf, vc and pf
Works for pf, org
George Philip & Son - Campbridge (1929) (2)
OBRA:
(selective list)
Vocal secular:
Stage:
Ion (incid music, Euripides), 1890;
Iphigenia in Tauris (incid music, Euripides), 1894;
A Scene from Pickwick (chbr op), 1921;
The Family Party (chbr op), 1923
Solo songs:
The Splendour Falls (A. Tennyson), 1886;
Up-hill (C. Rossetti), 1886, also with orch;
Goldthred's Song (W. Scott), 1886;
They are All Gone into the World of Light (H. Vaughan), 1888;
Lament of an Irish Mother (F.D. Hemans), 1890;
The Windflower (H. Boulton), 1890;
Darest Thou Now, O Soul (W. Whitman);
By the Bivouac's Fitful Flame (Whitman), 1897;
O Captain! My Captain (Whitman), 1898;
Ethiopia Saluting the Colours (Whitman), 1898, also with orch
Folksong arrs.:
Irish Folk Songs (A.P. Graves) (1897);
Irish County Songs, vols. i–iii (A.P. Graves and P.J. McCall) (1914–28);
Anglo-Irish Folk-Songs, vol. i (1931), collab. P. Gregory;
many folksong arrs. for mixed voices
Many part-songs, madrigals, unison songs
Vocal religiosa:
SATB and organ unless otherwise stated
St Mark Passion, Tr, T, Bar, B, SATB, org, 1920
Mass, F, SATB, org, 1922
Cants:
Spring's Summons (A.P. Graves), S, T, Bar, SATB, orch, 1885;
Song of Welcome (Sir F. Cook), SATB, vn, hp, org, RCM 1887;
Psalm 104, S, A, T, B, Bar, SATB, org, orch, 1886–7;
Unto Thee Will I Cry, S, SATB, org, str, 1889;
Ode to the West Wind (P.B. Shelley), T, SATB, orch, 1890;
Music: an Ode (A.C. Swinburne), S, SATB, orch, 1892–3;
The White Island (R. Herrick), S, A, T, B, SATBSATB, orch, 1894;
On Time (J. Milton), SATB, orch, 1897–8, 1898;
Dirge for Two Veterans (W. Whitman), B, SATB, orch, 1900–01, 1901 (1901);
The Song of the Tempest (W. Scott), S, SATB, orch, 1902;
A Ballad of Dundee (W.E. Aytoun), B, SATB, orch; ?1904;
Eden Spirits (E.B. Browning), female vv, pf, ?1915
Anthems:
Be Thou Exalted, 1882;
O Lord, Rebuke Me Not, 1885;
Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow, SATBSATB, 1886;
O God of Hosts, the Mighty Lord, SSAATTBB, 1886;
Through the Day Thy Love has Spared Us, SATB, 1886;
O Rex gloriae, SATB, 1889;
Try Me, O God, ?1890;
Precamini felicitatem, 1890;
I Will Arise, ?1893–4;
Heaven, 1898;
Oculi omnium, SATB, 1905;
I Will Call Upon God, ATB, 1905;
Glorious and Powerful God, 1910;
Never Weather Beaten Sail, 1910;
Great Lord of Lords, ATBATB, ?1912;
O Thou, the Central Orb, ?1914–15;
Summer Ended, 1917;
Expectans expectavi, 1919, also with orch;
Haec dies, SSATBB, 1919;
Hail Gladdening Light, SATBSATB (1919);
Glory and Honour and Laud, SSAATTBB (1925);
Tis the Day of Resurrection, SATBSATB (1927);
How Dazzling Fair (1929); Father All Holy, SATBSATB (1929);
O King Most High, SATBSATB (1932);
Once He Came in Blessing, SATBSATB (1935)
Other church music:
Many settings of the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis;
Mag and Nunc settings:
E (1891);
D (1898);
c (1900);
F (1908);
Tones VI, V, ?1910–11;
G (1911);
E (1913);
A (1915);
F ‘Collegium Regale’, SATBSATB, 1915;
E (Sternhold and Hopkins metrical version), 1918;
G, SATBSATB, 1915;
Nunc (Lat., Eng.), B , SSATBB, 1916;
Nunc (Lat., Eng.), a, SSATTB, 1916;
Tones IV, I (1923);
E (1927);
Founded on melodies of Pss civ and cxxxlv (Genevan psalter) (1927)
Communion Service Settings:
Phrygian mode (1923);
c, SATB (1927);
F ‘Missa Sancta Patricii’ (Ionian mode), 1922
TeD, Bs, Jub Deo and Nicene Creed settings;
hymn tunes, carol arrangements
Instrumental:
Orch:
Pf Conc., F, 1885–6;
Much Ado about Nothing, ov., 1889;
Iphigenia in Tauris, suite, ?1894;
Patrick Sarsfield: Sym. Variations on an Irish Air, 1899
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Chbr.:
Str qts:
d, 1885;
E ‘The Highgate’, 1892–3;
a, 1911–12;
E ‘The Harrogate’, 1912;
F, 1914–15;
D, ?1915–16;
Variations on an Irish Folk Song, str qt, ?1917;
numerous individual qt movts
Other chbr:
Sonata, G, vn, pf, 1886;
Sonata, A, vn, pf, n.d.;
Septet, c, cl, bn, hn, str, 1889;
Quintet, F, fl, ob, cl, hn, bn, 1891
Various movts for pf trio, vn and pf, vc and pf
Works for pf, org
Informació addicional...
RECICLASSICAT: WOOD, Charles (1866-1926)
AMAZON: Wood - The Anthems Vol.2
