In Memoriam# Claude Achille Debussy#

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1 DIGITAL MUSIC ARCHIVE Australia Music Series MDA010 I Memoriam Claude Achille Deussy For Piaoforte 1918 Fritz Hart Ket, 1874 Hoolulu, 1949 Edited y Richard Divall Music Archive Moash Uiversity Meloure

2 Iformatio aout the MUSIC ARCHIVE series Australia Music Ad other availale works i the free digital series is availale at This editio may e used free of charge from private performace ad study. It may e freely trasmitted ad copied i electroic or prited form. All rights are preserved for performace, recordig, roadcast ad pulicatio i ay audio format Copyright 2014 Richard Divall Pulished y MUSIC ARCHIVE OF MONASH UNIVERSITY Sir Zelma Cowe School of Music Moash Uiversity, Victoria, 3800, Australia ISBN ISMN The editio has ee produced with the geerous assistace from the MarshallHall Trust

3 3 Itroductio Fritz Hart was part of the extraordiary diaspora of British composers who, attracted to the various Domiios ad coloies of the the British Empire, dissemiated the ifluece of their British musical traditio ad the fashioale Celtic revival to may parts of the world. Hart s cotriutio to music i Australia, ad later Hawaii, is remarkale, ad he distiguished himself as a composer, teacher ad metor as well as a coductor ad writer. With the exceptio of Charles Edward Horsley, he was the fiest orchestrator to work i Australia efore 1930, ad his musical ifluece i this coutry lasted for a cosiderale time, especially through his studets, icludig Margaret Sutherlad ad Peggy GlavilleHicks. Both as teacher ad metor, he was especially ecouragig to female composers. Bor i Brockley, Ket i 1874, Fritz Hart was a chorister at Westmister Aey ad studied at the Royal College of Music, where he formed lifelog friedships with Gustav Holst, Ralph Vaugha Williams ad Graville Batock. He migrated to Australia i 1909 ad for may years was Director of the Alert Street Coservatorium of Music i Meloure, i successio to G.W.L. MarshallHall. He was also a joit fouder, with Alfred Hill, of the Australia Opera League. I 1937 he relocated to Hoolulu, where he coducted the Hoolulu Symphoy Orchestra. After his death i Hawaii i 1949, all of his scores were retured to Meloure, where they are held i the Latroe Lirary of the State Lirary of Victoria. Hart s output icluded twetytwo operas, two largescale symphoies, two strig quartets, several cocertos ad a Symphoic Rhapsody for violi ad orchestra, three soatas for violi ad piao, ad choral, orga, ad other keyoard music. He is remarkale for his 500odd sogs, set to diverse texts, icludig poems of the Celtic revival ad those of may Australia poets. These sogs have ot ee forgotte: Stephe Bafield, for example, gives them serious cosideratio i his 1985 study of twetiethcetury British sog. Details of Hart s life ad career, ad a full catalogue of his works are foud i Peter Tregear s excellet Fritz Beicke HartA Itroductio to his Life ad Music, M.Mus. Thesis Uiversity of Meloure This short work, writte at the ed of March, 1918 o the ews of the death of Claude Deussy is i two versios oe for violi ad piaoforte ad the other for solo piaoforte. Both appear i this series as umers ie ad te. The composer s mauscript of the piao versio of the I Memoriam Claude Achille Deussy is held i the State Lirary of Victoria, Latroe Lirary, LaTL 9528/1112. There are o editorial otes for either versio. I would like to ackowledge the assistace of The MarshallHall Trust, ad I express my deep appreciatio to Alla ad Maria Myers AO, ad to the Rector ad Provost of Newma College, The Uiversity of Meloure. Ad especially to Professor Ed Byre AC, the Presidet ad ViceChacellor of Moash Uiversity, Professor Joh Griffiths ad to the Dea of the Sir Zelma Cowe School of Music, Associate Professor Ro Burke for their support ad assistace of this project. Richard Divall April 2014.

4 4 Fritz Hart Portrait of Fritz Hart c Max Meldrum Natioal Gallery of Australia NGA The Editor Frà Professor Richard Divall AO OBE is a ViceChacellor s Professorial Fellow at Moash Uiversity, a Associate Professor of Music at The Uiversity of Meloure, ad Visitig Professor at The Uiversity of Malta. He is Chairma of the MarshallHall Trust ad is a Kight of Malta i Solem Religious Professio. He was awarded a D.Lett. (Ho Causa) i 1992 y Moash Uiversity ad Doc. Uiv. (Ho Causa) y Australia Catholic Uiversity i He is a PhD i Theology from the Uiversity of Diviity o eighteethcetury sacred music o Malta, ad a editio of the complete sacred works of Nicolò Isouard. Richard Divall has edited early Australia music sice 1967.

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