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Arthur Hervey (26 January 1855 – 10 March 1922) was an Irish composer, music critic, and an expert in French music.
Irish composer and author
This article is about the composer. For the Anglican Bishop, see Lord Arthur Hervey.
Life
Hervey was born in Paris of Irish parentage – his father was Charles J.V. Hervey who owned Killiane Castle[1] in County Wexford, Ireland. He was educated at the Oratory, Birmingham, and studied in London with Berthold Tours and Edouard Marlois, two organist-composers with a French background. Hervey worked as music critic for Vanity Fair (1889–92) and The Morning Post (1892–1908). He died in London.[2]
Music
Hervey composed in many forms including opera and orchestral music. Some of his larger works were written for and performed at major British music festivals at Cardiff, Norwich and Brighton. A French influence is detectable in his early chamber music. His wife Clare (née Harrison, widowed Webster) occasionally contributed the words to some of his songs and the libretto to his second opera Ilona (1914). In an obituary for the Musical Times, his musical language was described as being "always marked by melodiousness, straightforwardness of utterance, and polish of manner".[3]
Since 1959, the Royal Academy of Music (RAM) in London is awarding an annual Arthur Hervey Prize in the form of a scholarship for an outstanding young composer, which was initiated in memory of Hervey by bequest of his step-daughter, Nancy Webster. A relief portrait of Hervey in carved marble is preserved in the museum of the RAM.[4]
Writings
Despite of his substantial musical oeuvre Hervey remained mainly known for his writings, which include biographical studies of composers, most of which being devoted to French contemporaries like Saint-Saëns and Bruneau. He was widely regarded as an expert on French music. His viewpoint was very open-minded for its time, with an exception in the impressionists, and particularly Debussy, whom he regarded as "decadent".
Selected compositions
Opera
- The Fairy's Post-box, opera in 1 act (libretto: John Palgrave Simpson); London, Court Theatre, 21 May 1885
- Ilona, opera in 1 act (libretto: Clare Hervey); London, Court Theatre, 12 May 1914
Vocal music
- Sechs Liebeslieder (Heinrich Heine) for voice and piano (1883)
- Herzens-Stimmen (H. Heine) for voice and piano (1884)
- Neue Liebeslieder (various poets) for voice and piano (c.1890)
- 12 Songs of Heine for voice and piano (c.1895)
- The Gates of Night (author unknown) for baritone and orchestra (1901)
- many individual songs incl. Love of my Life, May Song, Once, Mine All, etc.
Orchestral music
- Love and Fate, dramatic overture (1890)
- Two Tone Pictures (1. On the Heights; 2. On the March) (1902)
- Youth, concert overture (1902)
- In the East, symphonic poem (1904)
- Life Moods, symphonic variations (1910)
Piano music
- Dans ma nacelle (1875)
- Eglantine (1875)
- Paquita (1875)
- Six Album Leaves (1888)
- A basso porto (1900)
- Three Pieces (c.1915)
Chamber music
- Réverie for violin or flute or cello with piano (1882)
- Cantilène for cello and piano (1895)
- Légende espagnole for cello and piano (1895)
- Berceuse for violin and piano (1900)
- Elevation for violin and piano (1902)
Selected writings
- Masters of French Music (London, 1894)
- French Music in the XIXth Century (London, 1903)
- Alfred Bruneau (London, 1907)
- Franz Liszt and his Music (London, 1911)
- The Life of Rubinstein (London, 1913)
- Saint-Saëns (London, 1921)
External links
References
Chief classical music critics |
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The Boston Globe |
- Michael Steinberg (1964–1976)
- Richard Dyer (1976–2006)
- Jeremy Eichler (since 2006)
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The Daily Telegraph |
- Campbell Clarke (1855?–1870)
- Joseph Bennett (1870–1906)
- Robin Legge (1906–1931)
- Herbert Hughes (1911–1932)
- Richard Capell (1933–1954)
- Martin Cooper (1954–1976)
- Peter Stadlen (1976–1985)
- Michael Kennedy (1986–2005)
- Geoffrey Norris (1995–2009)
- Ivan Hewett (since 2009)
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The Guardian |
- George Fremantle (1867–1895)
- Arthur Johnstone (1896–1904)
- Ernest Newman (1905–1906)
- Samuel Langford (1906–1927)
- Neville Cardus (1927–1940)
- Edward Greenfield (1977–1993)
- Tom Service (1999–2003)
- Andrew Clements (since 2003?)
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Los Angeles Times |
- Albert Goldberg (1947–1965)
- Martin Bernheimer (1965–1996)
- Mark Swed (since 1996)
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San Francisco Chronicle | |
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The New Yorker | |
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The New York Times | |
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The Observer |
- Ernest Newman (1919)
- Percy Scholes (1920–1925)
- A. H. Fox Strangways (1925–1939)
- William Glock (1939–1945)
- Eric Blom (1949–1953)
- Peter Heyworth (1955–1987)
- Nicholas Kenyon (1986–1992)
- Andrew Porter (1992–1996)
- Anthony Holden (2000–2008)
- Fiona Maddocks (since 2008)
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The Times | |
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The Washington Post |
- Paul Hume (1946–1982.)
- Joseph McLellan (mid-1970s–1995)
- Tim Page (1995–1999, 2001–2008)
- Philip Kennicott (1999–2001)
- Anne Midgette (2008–2019)
- Michael Andor Brodeur (since 2020)
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Others |
- Chicago Tribune
- Daily News
- George Hogarth (1846–1866)
- Evening News
- Evening Standard
- Percy Scholes (1913–1920)
- Barry Millington (2000s)
- Financial Times
- Frankfurter Zeitung
- The Independent
- New York Daily News
- New York Post
- San Francisco Examiner
- Saturday Review
- The Scotsman
- Sunday Express
- The Sunday Telegraph
- John Warrack (1961–1972)
- Michael Kennedy (1989–2005)
- The Sydney Morning Herald
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Position abolished | Birmingham Post |
- Stephen Stratton (1877–1906)
- Ernest Newman (1906–1919)
- Eric Blom (1931–1946)
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Daily Express |
- Francis Toye (1922–1925)
- Arthur Jacobs (1947–1952)
- Noël Goodwin (1965–1978)
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Daily Mail |
- Richard Capell (1911–1933)
- Edwin Evans (1933–1945)
- Ralph Hill (1945–1948)
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New Statesman |
- W. J. Turner (1915–1940)
- Desmond Shawe-Taylor (1945–1958)
- David Drew (1959–1967)
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The Sunday Times |
- Joseph Bennett (1865–1870)
- Hermann Klein (1881–1901)
- Ernest Newman (1920–1959)
- Desmond Shawe-Taylor (1958–1983)
- David Cairns (1983–1992)
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Discontinued | The Morning Chronicle |
- William Ayrton (1816–1826)
- George Hogarth (1834–1844)
- Charles Lewis Gruneisen (1845–1853)
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New York Herald Tribune |
- Henry E Krehbiel (c. 1880–1923)
- Lawrence Gilman (1923-late 1930s)
- Virgil Thomson (1940–1954)
- Paul Lang (1954–1963)
- Alan Rich (1963–1968)
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Authority control  |
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General | |
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National libraries | |
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Biographical dictionaries | |
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Other |
- MusicBrainz artist
- SUDOC (France)
- Trove (Australia)
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