[영국]Hubert Parry

 

 

Hubert Parry

Hubert Parry c. 1916

Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, 1st Baronet (27 February 1848 – 7 October 1918)

was an English composer, teacher and historian of music.

 19세기말 영국음악의 재활성화에 기여한 작곡가·작사가·교사.

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이튼 고등학교에서 작곡을 공부하면서 1867년 옥스퍼드에서 음악학사학위를 받았다. 나중에 그를 가르친 선생 중 특히 피아니스트 에드워드 댄로이터에게 많은 영향을 받았다. 〈사슬 풀린 프로메테우스의 장면들 Scenes from Prometheus Unbound〉로 시작하는 일련의 합창곡을 통해 19세기 중반 이후 영국음악의 특징이 될 대규모 덩어리 소리 효과에 대한 재능을 잘 나타내주었다.

그밖에 합창과 관현악을 위한 〈Blest Pair of Sirens〉(1887), 오라토리오 〈유디트 Judith〉(1888)·〈욥 Job〉(1892)·〈사울 왕 King Saul〉(1894)·〈Songs of Farewell〉(1916~18) 등을 작곡했다. 제창에 의한 노래 〈예루살렘 Jerusalem〉(1916)은 윌리엄 블레이크의 시 〈밀턴 Milton〉에 붙인 곡으로 제1차 세계대전 동안과 그 이후 거의 국가처럼 즐겨 불리게 되었다. 그밖에 다른 작품으로는 〈교향적 변주곡 Symphonic Variations〉, 오르간을 위한 수편의 코랄 프렐류드, 모테트, 가곡들이 있다.

1883년 옥스퍼드대학교의 음악제 지휘자로 임명되었고 런던 왕립 음악원의 교수가 되었으며, 1894년에 이 학교의 원장이 되었다. 1900년 옥스퍼드대학교 음악교수가 되었고, 1898년 기사작위를 받았으며, 1903년 준남작이 되었으나 죽은 뒤 자식이 없어서 이 작위는 계승되지 못했다. 음악 관계 저서로는 〈대작곡가 연구 Studies of Great Composers〉(1886)·〈음악 예술의 진화 The Evolution of the Art of Music〉(1896)·〈요한 제바스티안 바흐 Johann Sebastian Bach〉(1909)·〈음악 예술의 양식 Style in Musical Art〉(1911) 등이 있다.[다음 백과]

 

Parry's first major works appeared in 1880. As a composer he is best known for the choral song

"Jerusalem", the coronation anthem "I was glad", the choral and orchestral ode Blest Pair of Sirens, and the hymn tune "Repton", which sets the words "Dear Lord and Father of Mankind".

 

His orchestral works include five symphonies and a set of Symphonic Variations.

 

                               * Symphony No.1 in G-major (1882)

 

*  Symphony No.2 in F-major "The Cambridge" (1883)

                       * Symphony No.3 in C-major "The English" (1889)

* Symphony No.4 in E-minor (1889)

 

*  Symphony No.5 in B-minor (1912)

 

* Symphonic variations (1897)

After early attempts to work in insurance, at his father's behest, Parry was taken up

by George Grove, first as a contributor to Grove's massive Dictionary of Music and Musicians in the 1870s and 80s, and then in 1883 as professor of composition and musical history at the Royal College of Music, of which Grove was the first head.

 

In 1895 Parry succeeded Grove as head of the College, remaining in the post for the rest of his life. He was concurrently Heather Professor of Music at the University of Oxford from 1900 to 1908. He wrote several books about music and music history, the best-known of which is probably his 1909 study of Johann Sebastian Bach.

 

Both in his lifetime and afterwards, Parry's reputation and critical standing have varied. His academic duties were considerable, and prevented him from devoting all his energies to composition, but some contemporaries such as Charles Villiers Stanford rated him as the finest English composer since Henry Purcell; others, such as Frederick Delius, did not.

 

Parry's influence on later composers, by contrast, is widely recognised. Edward Elgar learned much of his craft from Parry's articles in Grove's Dictionary, and among those who studied under Parry at the Royal College were Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst, Frank Bridge and John Ireland.

 

                               * Lady Radnor's Suite

 

 *  An English Suite, for string orchestra (1914)