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Mitchell, Donald Charles Peter was born on February 6, 1925 in London. Son of Frederick George and Kathleen Mary Mitchell.
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Available again for a new generation of Mahlerians, Donald Mitchell's famous study of the composer's early life and music was greeted as a major advance on its first appearance in 1958. Revised and updated in the early 1980s, this paperback edition includes a new introduction by the author to bring this classic work once again to the forefront of Mahler studies. From his birth in Bohemia, then part of the mighty Austro-Hungarian empire, to a survey of his early works, many now lost, Gustav Mahler: The Early Years forms an indispensable prelude to the period of the great compositions. The conflicts which came to mark Mahler's music and personality had their beginnings in his childhood and youth. Without understanding the territorial, social and familial conflicts of this time one cannot truly appreciate the impulses behind the major symphonies and song cycles of his later years.
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This is a study of the ideas and creative forces that went into shaping the language of 20th-century music. The author's argument is based on a consideration of Schoenberg and Stravinsky, during the course of which he makes forays into the related arts.
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A work of painstaking and imaginative scholarship presented in eminently readable language. MUSICAL QUARTERLY Mitchell has amassed and processed an imposing amount of material, most of it new... It includes a section on Mahler and Freud, discusses Bach's influence on Mahler, and reproduces contemporary criticism... Invaluable for Mahler scholars and lovers. ECONOMIST Donald Mitchell's second book on the life and work of Gustav Mahler focuses principally on Mahler's first settings of Wunderhorn texts, volumes I and II of the Lieder und Gesaenge; his first song-cycle, the Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen; and the later orchestral settings of Wunderhorn poems. The central section of the book explores the extraordinary and often eccentric chronology of the First, Second and Third Symphonies' composition, an often minute exploration which reveals the interpenetration of song and symphony in this period of Mahler's art, emphasizes the significance for these works of imagery drawn from the Wunderhorn anthology, and calls attention to the ambiguous position occupied by much of Mahler's music at this time, suspended as it was between the rival claims - and forms - of symphony and symphonic poem. The final section of the book not only looks at the Fourth Symphony as the final, perhaps most perfect, flowering of Mahler's Wunderhorn symphonies, but also investigates such fascinating topics as the relationship between Mahler and Berlioz, and the influence of Bach on Mahler's later masterpieces. This new edition of the book offers an entirely new preface, in which Mitchell gives a unique account of the influence of politics, nationalism and fascism on the reception and rejection of Mahler's music, after the composer's death until the Mahler Renaissance of the 1950s and 1960s. It also includes extensive corrigenda and amplifying addenda, making it clear that the Wunderhorn influence persisted beyond the end of the period during which the Wunderhorn anthology was a constant source of inspiration. It is completed by an international bibliography which documents chronologically the reception and study of his music both in the past, and the prodigiously different circumstances of the present. DONALD MITCHELL was Founder Professor of Music at the University of Sussex. He is well known for his major studies of Mahler, among his many other books and studies. He was awarded the CBE in 2000.
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(The first three volumes of Donald Mitchell's masterly exa...)
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Benjamin Britten and W.H. Auden were key figures of the 1930s, and here Donald Mitchell traces their lives during one crucial year, 1936. They worked hard to establish themselves, first through the GPO film unit, in a collaboration which flowered and spilled over into the theatre, and then radio - a new medium that the liveliest creative minds of the time were exploring and exploiting.Britten and Auden also joined forces in works destined for the recital room and concert hall, among them Our Hunting Fathers, the political symbolism of which Donald Mitchell examines in depth, and On the Island, settings of early Auden that comprised Britten's first important set of songs to English texts. Much use is made of Britten's private diaries, which he kept on a daily basis, and a revealing portrait emerges of the two men's relationship, of their work together in many different fields, and of the reflection within that work of political ideas current at the time. DONALD MITCHELL was Britten's close friend and publisher from 1964 until the end of the composer's life, and his authorised biographer. The T S Eliot Memorial Lectures delivered in 1979
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The third volume of Mitchell's epic account of the composer and his works concentrates on the vocal music and, in particular, on some of his most famous, original, and best loved compositions.
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A collection of the writings of musicologist Donald Mitchell. There are pieces on Mahler and Britten, on whom Mitchell is a leading authority, and studies of Max Reger, Malcolm Arnold, Elgar and Delius. Other articles include an attempt to define the role of Expressionism in music.
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A symposium on the English composer containing articles by specialists on various aspects of his musical career as well as information on his personal life.
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This volume contains a wide-ranging survey of musics of the world in historical and social contexts, from ancient times to the present day. It begins by describing aspects of musical style and function in relation to the early developments of civilizations, as background to a study of later transformations. It then describes, in some detail, musical traditions of Africa and Asia, in relation to history/geography and to other aspects of culture. A compendium of information currently available as well as a dialectical examination of musical causation and function, this book aims to lead students, teachers, and those who practice Western music towards a deeper understanding of the various musical traditions that contribute to the modern, multicultural environment.
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Photographic biography of Benjamin Britten.
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Mitchell, Donald Charles Peter was born on February 6, 1925 in London. Son of Frederick George and Kathleen Mary Mitchell.
Student, Dulwich College, London. Student, University Durham, 1950. Doctor of Philosophy, University Southampton, England, 1977.
Master of Arts (honorary), University Sussex, 1973. Doctor (honorary), University York, 1990. Degree in Music(honorary), University Bangkok, 2001.
Advisory reader new fiction Gainsborough Pictures Ltd., 1942-1943. Non-Combatant Corps., 1943-1945. Assistant master Oakfield School, London, 1946-1948.
Founding editor Music Survey, 1947, joint editor, 1949-1952. Music critic Musical Times, 1953-1957, Musical Opinion, 1953-1957. Head music department Faber & Faber, 1958.
Editor Tempo, 1958-1962. Music staff Daily Telegraph, 1959-1964. Music advisor Boosey & Hawkes, 1963-1964.
Music critic Listener, 1964. From managing director to president Faber Music, 1965—1988, president, 1988-1995. Founding professor music University Sussex, 1971—1976, visiting professor, 1977.
Executor Benjamin Britten's Estate, 1976. Guest artistic director Aldeburgh Festival, 1991. Visiting professor University York, since 1991, KCL, 1995—1999.
From chairman education committee to life president Britten-Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies, 1976—2000. Life president Britten-Pears Foundation, 2000. Chairman Britten Estate Ltd., 1986—2000, life president, 2000.
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(The first three volumes of Donald Mitchell's masterly exa...)
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Author: Gustav Mahler: The Early Years, 1958, 3d edition, 1995, The Language of Modern Music, 1963, 4th edition, 1993, Gustav Mahler: The Wunderhorn Years, 1975, second edition, 1995, Britten and Auden in the Thirties: The Year 1936 (Thomas Stearns Eliot memorial lectures), 1981, Gustav Mahler: Songs and Symphonies of Life and Death, 1985, Cradles of the New: Writings on Music 1951-1991, (with Mervyn Cooke) 1995, Gustav Mahler: The World Listens, 1995. Co-author: (with Hans Keller) Benjamin Britten: A Commentary on His Works, 1952, second edition, 1972, Music Survey 1949-1952, 1981, (with hockey club Robbins Landon) The Mozart Companion, 1956, second edition, 1965, (with Knud Martner) Alma Mahler: Gustav Mahler Memories and Letters, 1968, 4th edition, 1990, (with John Evans) Benjamin Britten: Pictures from a Life 1913-1976, 1978, (with others) Mahler's Seventh Symphony, 1995, The Faber Book of Nursery Songs, 1968, The Faber Book of Children's Songs, 1970. Editor Benjamin Britten: Death in Venice, 1987, New Sounds, New Century: Mahler's Fifth Symphony and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, 1997.
Co-editor Letters from a Life: Selected Letters and Diaries of Benjamin Britten, vols. I and II, 1991, The Mahler Companion, 1999. Member editorial board Muziek & Wetenschap, 1997—2002.
Contributor articles to professional journals.
Director Performing Rights Society, 1973, joint department chairman, 1987-1989, chairman 1989-1992, honorary member council, 1992. Board directors Music Copyright Overseas Service Ltd., 1977-1992, English Music Theatre, 1973, Nexus Opera, 1986-1991. Chairman executive committee Mahler Festival, Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, 1995.
Member British Broadcasting Corporation Central Music Advisory Council, 1967. Member council Aldeburgh Foundation, 1977-1994. Member advisory board Kurt Weill Edition New York, 1992.
Governor New York Opera, 1989-1990. Fellow Royal College Music. Member CISAC (vice president 1992-1994), Royal Academy Music (honorary, governor 1988, council honor since 2000).
Married Kathleen Gertrude Livingston, January, 1956. One step-son, two foster sons.
