Alun Hoddinott: A Bio-Bibliography

by Stewart R. Craggs

Overview

Internationally known Welsh composer Alun Hoddinott has played a major role in the promotion of contemporary music in his country through his own prolific compositions—operas; orchestral, chamber, band, and solo instrumental pieces; choral music; songs; and incidental music—and as a professor of music at Cardiff University and artistic director of the Cardiff Festival of Twentieth-Century Music. This bio-bibliography includes a catalog of his works, classified by genre, which documents 278 compositions (plus numerous derived pieces) composed from 1946 to 1991, indicating commissioning, dedication, instrumentation, duration, manuscript information, publication, recordings, and premieres and selected performances.

The works catalog is cross-referenced to recordings in a discography section and to related items in an annotated bibliography, which includes a large number of reviews and writings by the composer. An introductory biography, appendices listing the musical compositions alphabetically and chronologically, and a general index complete the volume. Prepared with the full cooperation of Hoddinott, this is the first detailed publication on this important composer.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313273216
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	05/24/1993
Series:	Bio-Bibliographies in Music , #44
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

STEWART R. CRAGGS is Development Services Librarian at the University of Sunderland Library, United Kingdom. He is the author of three bio-bibliographies, Arthur Bliss (Greenwood Press, 1988), Richard Bennett (Greenwood Press, 1989), and John McCabe (Greenwood Press, 1991).

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Biography
Works and Performances
Operas
Orchestral
Chamber and Solo Instrumental
Choral
Songs
Incidental Music
Music for Brass, Wind Ensembles
Discography
Bibliography
Appendix I: Alphabetical List of Compositions
Appendix II: Chronological List of Main Compositions
Index

Editorial Reviews

Following a brief biographical sketch of prolific Welsh composer Hoddinott (b. 1929), artistic director of the Cardiff Festival of Twentieth-Century Music, is a catalog of 278 musical works, plus derived pieces, annotated with in formation on commissioning, dedication, instrumentation, duration, manuscript and publication, recordings, and performances. This works catalog is cross-referenced to a discography section and the annotated bibliography, which includes numerous reviews and writings by the composer. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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