Английская Википедия:Antoinette Kirkwood
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Antoinette Kirkwood (26 February 1930 - 28 January 2014) was an English composer born in London, with Irish family connections.[1] She studied with Claud Biggs at the Irish Academy of Music and then piano and composition with Dorothy Howell and cello with Paul Tortelier at the Royal Academy of Music.[2] She often accompanied her mother, the soprano Rome Lindsay.[3] Radio Éireann broadcast her Symphony, op 8, composed in 1953.[2] This "very notable achievement", said one unidentified reviewer, established that Kirkwood "can write a memorable tune in a definite key and can hold the listener’s interest for a considerable time".[4] On 28 April 1960 the conductor Kathleen Merritt organized and conducted a Wigmore Hall concert of 'Contemporary British Women Composers', featuring the music of Kirkwood alongside Ina Boyle, Ruth Gipps, Dorothy Howell, Elizabeth Maconchy and Grace Williams.[5]
Kirkwood was the founder and conductor of the St Columba's Orchestra (associated with the London church) from 1957 until 1961. For four years beginning in 1969, she was a member of the executive committee of the Composers' Guild of Great Britain.
She married the writer Richard Phibbs (1911-1986, author of Buried in the Country, 1947) in 1961 at St Columba's.[6][7] Her marriage, three children and caring for her mother and husband through their terminal illnesses, led to a complete cessation in her composition activity between 1961 and the late 1980s.[1] During that period they were living at 56 Sutherland Street, London SW1.[8]
On her husband's death in 1986 she raised money to re-publish two of his books (Cockle Button, Cockle Ben, for children, and Harmony Hill, four short stories), as well as resuming her own career as a composer.[9] She died on 28 January 2014, aged 84.[10]
Works
Kirkwood composed orchestral concert works, theatre music and two ballet scores, as well as instrumental and chamber pieces (including a cello sonata and the Rapsodie for harp) and many songs. Marie Fitzpatrick identifies a development in her style from the three folksong based orchestral Fantasies (1958-61), through the six Intermezzos for piano of 1959, showing the influence of Bartok, and also including more technically demanding explorations, such as the Soliloquy for guitar (1985).[11] Her publishers are Curlew & Andresier and Bardic Edition. Selected works include:
Orchestral
- Symphony No. 1, op. 8 (1953, recording at the British Music Collection)[12]
- Alessandro, op. 12 - (1957, music drama after the book by Gerard McLarnon)
- Musa the Saint, op. 16 - (1958, ballet after the book by Antoinette Kirkwood)
- Fantasia No. 1 for orchestra, op. 13 (1958)
- Fantasia No. 2, op. 14 (on an old Irish reel)
- Fantasia No. 3, op. 18 (1961, on a old Sligo tune)
- Suite for String Orchestra, op. 5 (1960)[13]
- The Empty Stable, op. 10 - Incidental music
- Unhallowed, op. 4 - Incidental music
Chamber and instrumental
- Cello Sonata, op. 6 (1950)
- Six Intermezzi for piano (1959)
- Petite Suite, op. 20 No. 2 for Guitar
- Rapsodie No. 1, op. 21 No. 4 for Viola and Guitar
- Soliloquy, op. 19 No. 3 for Guitar (1985)
- Largo, op. 17 No. 1 for Flute and Piano
- Rapsodie, op. 19 No. 2 for Harp solo
- Sleepy Waters in the Moonlight, for 2 Violins and Violoncello
- Sonatina, op. 2 No. 1, piano (1946)
- Nocturne, op. 2 No. 2, piano
Vocal
- Carol, SATB and piano
- The Fly, op. 7 No. 1 (William Blake)
- The Barrel Organ, op. 7 No. 5 (Michael Ashe)
- Must she go?, op. 9 No. 1 (James Forsyth)
- Morning in Bengal, op. 9 No. 2 (Anthony Hayward)
- The Tourney, op. 9 No. 3 (Anthony Hayward)
- Remorse, op. 9 No. 4 (Michael O'Hagan)
- The Song of the Fisherman of Cacru, op. 11 No. 3 (James Forsyth)
- The Oyster-Catcher’s Song, op. 11 No. 4 (James Forsyth)
- Der Schiffbrüchige, op. 15 (Heinrich Heine)
- Krönung, op. 17 No. 2 (Heinrich Heine) High Voice and Strings[3][4][14]
A few of her works have been recorded and issued on media, including:
- Six Intermezzi[15]
- Sonata for Violoncello and Piano[16]
- Suite for Strings, Orquestra de Cordas de Santana de Parnaíba, YouTube[17]
- Women Composers - Vol. I CD
- Women Composers - Vol. II CD[4]
References
Further reading
- ↑ 1,0 1,1 Шаблон:Cite book Шаблон:ISBN
- ↑ 2,0 2,1 Contemporary Music Review, Vol. 11 Parts 1 and 2, pp. 177-8
- ↑ 3,0 3,1 Шаблон:Cite book
- ↑ 4,0 4,1 4,2 Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ 'London Concerts: Six Women Composers', in The Musical Times, Vol. 101, No. 1408, June 1960, pp. 373-374
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
- ↑ The Times 24 July 1961, p. 12
- ↑ Who's Who in Music, 5th ed. (1969), p. 173
- ↑ Helen Reid. 'For the Love of Richard', Western Daily Press, 1 August 1988, p. 8
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Marie Fitzpatrick . 'Kirkwood, Antoinette' in Grove Music Online (2001, rev. 2023)
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ 'Six Women Composers', The Musical Times, Vol. 101, No. 1408 (June 1960), pp. 373-4
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Included on A Potpourri of Piano Music, Catherine Nardiello, piano, Cassette CN-105
- ↑ extract performed by Gemma Christine Connor
- ↑ Suite for Strings - Antoinette Kirkwood (Estreia Nacional Brasileira)
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