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The New Grove Dictionary Of Music And Musicians 5 Ed. 2nd, 1904
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1calm has earned him the virtually undisputed title of 'greatest living Mozartian'. Among many honours received he has been made a CBE (1958) and DMus of Leeds University (1970), and he was knighted in 1977
3BIBLIOGRAPHY
4P Gammond 'Clifford Curzon', Audio & Record Review, m.11 (1964), 12 [with discography by F J Clough and G J Cumming]
5A Blyth 'Clifford Curzon', Gramophone, xlviii (1971), 1764
6'Artur Schnabel, Pianist and Teacher', The Listener xci (25 April 1974), 544 [interview with Curzon]
8MAX I OPPERT
10Curzon, (Ernest) Frederic (b London, 4 Sept 1899, d Bournemouth, 6 Dec 1973) English composer and organist. He studied the violin, cello, piano and organ at an early age, and his settings of the Magnificat and Nunc dimittis were used by his local choir when he was 12. At 16 he was a pianist in a London theatre orchestra, and at 20 was conducting and composing accompaniments for silent films. He was an organist for many years at Shepherd's Bush Pavilion and other theatres and halls throughout the country. As a composer he was given early encouragement by Dan Godfrey at Bournemouth and by Ralph Hawkes of Boosey & Hawkes, of which he became head of the light music department. Curzon's works show a gift for pure melody and fresh and effective scoring, he wrote many light orchestral works, instrumental pieces and songs and much music for films, radio and television. Among his most successful orchestral works are the suites In Malaga (1934), Robin Hood (1936) and Salon Suite (1941), the overtures Vanguard (1939) and Punchmello (1947) and the novelty pieces Dance of the Ostracised Imp (1939), The Boulevardier (1939) and Galavant (1951). Curzon was a president of the Light Music Society
12ANDREW LAMB
14Curzon, (Emmanuel) Henri (Parent) de (b Le Havre, 6 July 1861, d Paris, 25 Feb 1942). French critic and writer on music, son of the painter Alfred de Curzon. His early training was in history and archaeology. He took the degree of docteur es lettres and in 1882 joined the Archives Nationales in Paris, where he eventually became director, retiring in 1926. He then became librarian of the Opéra-Comique. His interest in history turned gradually to literary and so to theatrical history, and in 1889 he began to write music criticism, having found his true métier he was for the rest of his life a prolific author of books, articles and reviews. From 1920 he contributed regularly to Le ménestrel, and in 1928 succeeded Adolphe Jullien as music critic of the Journal des débats. He wrote a large number of biographies of composers, mostly careful compilations of earlier work with little original research. He paid special attention to Schubert, to whom he devoted a study of the songs and a critical bibliography, and to Mozart, on whom he wrote two biographies, as well as translating and editing many of his letters. Curzon was a co-founder of the Société Française de Musicologie, and vice-president of the Association de la Critique Dramatique et Musicale.
16WRITINGS
17La légende de Sigurd dans l'Edda (Paris, 1890)
18Les dernières années de Piccinni à Paris (Paris, 1890)
19Musiciens du temps passé (Paris, 1893)
20Croquis d'artistes (Paris, 1898)
21Etat ommuare des pièces et documents concernant le théâtre et la musique conservés aux Archives nationales (Besançon, 1899)
22Franz Schubert bibliographie critique (Paris, 1899)
23Les Lieder de Franz Schubert (Paris, 1899)
24Essai de classement d'une bibliographie musicale (Besançon, 1900)
25Guide de l'amateur d'ouvrages sur la musique (Paris, 1901-9)
26Hoffmann (Paris, 1901)
27Felipe Pedrell (Paris, 1902)
28Repertoire numerique des archives de la Maison du Roi (Paris, 1904)
29Les Lieder et airs détachés de Beethoven (Paris, 1905)
30Essai de bibliographie mozartienne (Paris, 1906)
31L'évolution lyrique du théâtre dans les différents pays (Paris, 1908)
32Gretry (Paris, 1908)
33Meyerbeer (Paris, 1911)
34Mo art (Paris, 1914)
35L'oeuvre de Richard Wagner à Paris et ses interprètes (Paris, 1920)
36Rossini (Paris, 1920)
37Ambroise Thomas (Paris, 1921)
38Gabriel Fauré (Paris, 1923)
39Ernest Reyer sa vie et ses oeuvres (Paris, 1924)
40Leo Delibes sa vie et ses oeuvres (Paris, 1926)
41Une heure de musique avec Rossini (Paris, 1930)
42Mo art (Paris, 1938)
43Articles and reviews in Gazette de France, Guide musical, Théâtre musical, Revue de la France moderne, Larousse mensuel
45BIBLIOGRAPHY
46N Dulourcq 'Henri de Curzon', Bibliothèque de l'Ecole de Chartes (1945 6) 159
47A Dieudonne 'Emmanuel-Henri Parent de Curzon', MGG [incl extensive bibliography]
49MALCOLM TURNER
51Cushing, Charles (b Oakland, Calif., 8 Dec 1905) American composer. He took the BA and the MA at the University of California at Berkeley and won the Prix de Paris Fellowship (1929), which took him to the Ecole Normale de Musique for composition lessons with Boulanger. He also studied the violin, viola, clarinet and piano. He taught at Berkeley (1931-68, professor 1948), where he conducted the University of California Concert Band (1934-52). His music is lyrical and makes use of impressionist harmonies, notable among his works is Carmen saeculare, which was performed under his direction at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley. He translated the texts of Milhaud's Les malheurs d'Orphée and Satie's Socrate, and he contributed articles to Modern Music. In 1952 he was admitted to the Légion d'Honneur
53WORKS
54(selective list)
55Incidental scores The Tempest (Shakespeare), 1964, 3 others (Giraudoux, Aristophanes)
56Choral Carmen saeculare (Horace), chorus, orch, 1935. Psalm xcvii, chorus, band, 1939. Wine from China (Chin. trans.), male vv, pf duet, 1945. Ursula and the Radishes (W Stevens), A. male vv, fl, 2 cl, hn. 1946. What are Years? (M Moore), 1954
57Orch Divertimento, str. 1947. Angel Camp, band, 1952. Cereus, poem, 1960. numerous arts for band incl B Bartók Petite suite (New York, 1963)
58Solo vocal Lyric Set (textless), S, fl, va, 1946. Poem (Marvell To his Coy Mistress), Bar. orch, 1958, over 40 songs
59Inst 3 Eclogues, 2 cl, hn. 1938. Fantasy, fl, cl, hn, 1949; Sonata, cl, pf, 1957. Laudate pueri, 2 cl. 1960, 2 str qts, 2 sonatas, vn, pf, many pf pieces
60MSS in US-RE
62BIBLIOGRAPHY
63D Milhaud 'Through my California Window', MM, xxi/2 (1944), 94
64VALERIE BROOKS SAMSON
66Cushion dance [Kissing dance] An old social dance sometimes called 'Joan Sanderson' in England and 'Babbity Bowster' ('Bob at the Bolster') and various other names in Scotland. It enjoyed great popularity among all classes of society and there were frequent references to it in the 17th century. It was published in Playford's Dancing Master (1686 and later editions). Thomas Wilson included it in A Companion to the Ball Room (c1812) together with a modified version of the dance and an alternative tune, both of which he considered more suited to the times.
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