Egon Wellesz
Austrian, later British composer, teacher and musicologist
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Egon Wellesz's Degrees
- PhD Musicology University of Vienna
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Egon Joseph Wellesz, CBE, FBA was an Austrian, later British composer, teacher and musicologist, notable particularly in the field of Byzantine music. Early life and education in Vienna Egon Joseph Wellesz was born on 21 October 1885 in the Schottengasse district of Vienna to Samú Wellesz and Ilona Wellesz . Although his parents met and married in Vienna, they both originated from Hungary and came from Jewish families in that nation. His parents, while ethnically Hungarian Jews, were both practicing Christians in Vienna and Wellesz received a Protestant upbringing. He later converted to Catholicism. As a boy he attended the Franz Josephs Gymnasium on Hegel Street where he received a classical education in Greek and Latin.
Egon Wellesz's Published Works
Published Works
- The "Akathistos". A Study in Byzantine Hymnography (1956) (79)
- A history of Byzantine music and hymnography (1949) (79)
- The Akathistos hymn (1962) (34)
- A Working Friendship the Correspondence Between Richard Strauss and Hugo Von Hofmannsthal (1961) (12)
- Studies in Eastern chant (1966) (8)
- The Nativity Drama of the Byzantine Church (1947) (6)
- The age of enlightenment, 1745-1790 (1973) (6)
- ANTON BRUCKNER AND THE PROCESS OF MUSICAL CREATION (1938) (4)
- The New Oxford History of Music. Vol. I. Ancient and Oriental Music (1958) (3)
- The leaden Echo and the golden Echo : cantata for high voice, violin, clarinet, violoncello and piano (1947) (3)
- Eastern Elements in Western Chants: Studies in the Early History of Ecclesiastical Music (1947) (2)
- The Origin of the Eight Modes of Music (1949) (2)
- MUSIC IN THE UNIVERSITIES (1948) (2)
- WORDS AND MUSIC IN BYZANTINE LITURGY (1947) (2)
- Music in the Treatises of Greek Gnostics and Alchemists (1951) (2)
- MELITO'S HOMILY ON THE PASSION: AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE SOURCES OF BYZANTINE HYMNOGRAPHY (1943) (2)
- EARLY BYZANTINE NEUMES (1952) (2)
- English Musical Life—A Symposium (V) (1945) (1)
- The New Oxford History of Music. Vol. I: Ancient and Oriental Music (1958) (1)
- The music of the byzantine church (1960) (1)
- The New Oxford History of Music: Vol. 1, Ancient and Oriental Music (1958) (1)
- The Earliest Example of Christian Hymnody (1945) (1)
- SCHÖNBERG AND BEYOND (1)
- Eastern Elements in English Ecclesiastical Music (1942) (1)
- THE INTERPRETATION OF PLAINCHANT (1963) (1)
- New Chamber Music (1966) (0)
- Suite Op. 39, Violoncello solo (1955) (0)
- 5. Sinfonie, Op. 75 (1959) (0)
- Origins of Byzantine Music (1948) (0)
- THE ORIGINS OF DOMINIAN CHANT (1950) (0)
- I sing of a maiden. Op. 62a (1944) (0)
- Monteverdi's Vespers (1946) (0)
- Concertos. Violon, orchestre. Op. 84 (1961) (0)
- Eklogen. Op. 11 (0)
- Books Received (1935) (0)
- Zu meiner „Alkestis” (1959) (0)
- Fanfares for Horn Solo, Op. 78 (1959) (0)
- Suite für Flöte, Oboe, Klarinette, Horn und Fagott, Op. 73 = Suite for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon (1956) (0)
- PROBLEMS OF MODERN MUSIC (0)
- String quartet no. 5, op. 60 (1948) (0)
- Suite for Flute Solo, Op. 57@@@Suite for Clarinet Solo, Op. 74@@@Suite, Op. 73, fur Flote, Oboe, Klarinette, Horn und Fagott@@@Suite for Flute and String Orchestra@@@Suite for Clarinet and String Orchestra (1958) (0)
- HOFMANNSTHAL AND STRAUSS (1952) (0)
- ["Grotesken Album = Album des grotesques = Album of grotesques"] (0)
- Suites. Violon, piano. Op. 56 (1937) (0)
- An Alban Berg Manuscript at Oxford (1946) (0)
- Books Received (1937) (0)
- To sleep. Op. 94 (1965) (0)
- Music of the Troubadours, Six Songs in Provencal (1947) (0)
- Chain of Changes for Piano Solo@@@40 Changes [For Piano]@@@Studien in Grau, Op. 106@@@All' Antica, Suite for Piano (1972) (0)
- Suite for Bassoon Solo, Op. 77@@@Buffoonery, for Bassoon Solo@@@Rhapsody for Bassoon (1959) (0)
- The symphonic outlook (1750-90) (1957) (0)
- Symphony in C, op. 62 (1949) (0)
- Studies in Eastern Chant. Vol. II (1971) (0)
- Byzantine Studies and other Essays . By Norman H. Baynes, edited by R. A. Humphreys and A. D. Momigliano. Pp. xi + 392. London: Athlone Press, 1955. 35s. (1956) (0)
- Gluck and the Birth of Modern Opera by Patricia Howard (Barrie and Rockliff, 30/-) (1964) (0)
- RECENT STUDIES IN WESTERN CHANT (1955) (0)
- SOME EXOTIC ELEMENTS OF PLAINSONG (0)
- Suite for oboe solo, opus 76 (1958) (0)
- English Musical Life—A Symposium (I-III) (1945) (0)
- Three Italian Masques, Concertino for Piano, Brass, Percussion, and Bass@@@Stanzas, for Chamber Orchestra@@@Endecatode, per 14 istrumenti e percussione@@@VII. Symphonie, op. 102 (1970) (0)
- ARNOLD SCHŌNBERG 1874–1951 (1951) (0)
- Zwei Studien fur Klavier, Op. 29@@@Triptychon fur Klavier, Op. 98 (1970) (0)
- Review-Essay: The Problems of Lao Discography@@@The History of Music in Sound. Vol. 1, Ancient and Oriental Music@@@Music of Thailand@@@Laos@@@Traditional Music of Southern Laos@@@Laos: l'art du khene@@@Visages du... Laos (1979) (0)
- Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae Transcripta, I: Hymnen des Sticherarium fur SeptemberThe Icons of Cyprus (1938) (0)
- Quartet for Clarinet and Strings@@@Quintet for Clarinet and String Quartet@@@Quintett fur Klarinette, 2 Violinen, Viola und Violoncello, Op. 81 (1964) (0)
- Quatuors. Cordes. No 3. Op. 25 (0)
- ARE THE FOUNDATIONS OF OUR MUSICO-HISTORICAL TRAINING SOUND? (1925) (0)
- Missa brevis. Op. 89 (1963) (0)
- Messes. Op. 80 (1958) (0)
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