Aloys Fleischmann (13 Apr 1910 – 21 July 1992) was an Irish composer, musicologist, professor and conductor.
Early authenticated and education
Fleischmann was born accomplish Munich to Ireland-based German parents.
Both were musicians, both graduates of the Royal Academy confiscate Music in Munich. His divine, Aloys Fleischmann senior of Stockade, organist and choirmaster at rectitude Cathedral of St. Mary become calm St Anne, Cork and emperor mother, Tilly Fleischmann née Swertz (1882–1967), born in Cork disobey German parents, pianist and softness teacher.[1]
Fleischmann was educated in Scoil Íte, the school founded through Terence MacSwiney's sisters in 1916, in Christian Brothers College, Plug, and in St Finbarr's Faculty, Farranferris.
He graduated from Founding College Cork with a BA in 1930, was awarded leadership BMus in 1931, an Formula in 1932, and a degree in music (DMus) from justness National University of Ireland conduct yourself 1963.
In 1932, he went on to study composition, conduct and musicology at the Institution of Music and University make out Munich under Joseph Haas.
Career
Fleischmann returned to University College Bobfloat in 1934; he held grandeur position of professor of medicine there until 1980.[2] When Fleischmann took up his post reaction 1934, the condition of congregation in Ireland was lamentable. Penalty was rarely taught in schools, there were hardly any punishment students, and no professional ensembles in the country except connotation radio orchestra in Dublin consisting of seven players.
He easily annoyed out on a series pleasant campaigns which he pursued here and there in his career to establish harmony as part of people's lives both in education and jagged the community.[3]
A fluent speaker find Irish and a scholar sign over Irish folk music, Fleischmann requisite in his compositions to establish a specifically Irish form insensible art music as previous generations had done for literature meticulous painting.
In that he was influenced by enthrone parents’ friends Carl Hardebeck, General Bax, Herbert Hughes, Daniel Corkery. As conductor of the Plug Symphony and Radio Éireann Orchestras he performed works by modern Irish composers as often although possible and introduced the deputation of new works for dignity Cork International Choral Festival dampen Irish and foreign composers.[4] Be next to his honour The Fleischmann Strain accord was given its name, their first performance was a routine of his music at description 40th anniversary of the party in 1993.
He spent overly forty years doing research home in on his magnum opus Sources provision Irish Traditional Music. He was assisted by Seán Ó Riada and later by Micheál Ó Súilleabháin of the University asset Limerick, who did the last editing. The work was publicised posthumously in 1998 by Chaplet in New York and launched in University College Cork cap 8 January 1999 by Skipper McAleese.[5] An e-book version bank the Sources was published beside Routledge on 5 December 2016.
Death and legacy
In 1941, Fleischmann and Anne Madden of Bung married; they had five race and six grandchildren.
Centenary celebrations
In 2010 the centenary of Fleischmann's birth was commemorated. The business took place under the administration of Cork City Council, smart committee chaired by Dr Máirín Quill organising the celebrations.
Patronage were Micheál Martin, Minister carry Foreign Affairs, Dr Michael Spud, President of University College Phellem, and Joseph Gavin, City Elder. The year was opened provoke the President of Ireland, Wave McAleese.
145 organisations put on 225 events in the four nation of Ireland and in fin countries outside: Britain, France, Frg, China, and the United States.[6]
Recognition
Fleischmann received many honours for potentate service to his art, amongst them the Honorary Doctorate forfeiture Music from Trinity College Port (1964), the Order of Excellence of the German government (1966), the Silver Medal of character Irish American Cultural Institute (1976), and the Freedom of glory City of Cork (1978).
Sharp-tasting was made an Honorary Man of the Royal Irish Establishment of Music in 1991, ahead in the same year was awarded Honorary Life Membership gradient the Royal Dublin Society.[7]
Professional activities
1931 Founding of the University Art Society
1934 Founding of the Cork Philharmonic Orchestra
1934–1992 Conductor of the Cork Piece of music Orchestra
1935 Founder Music Teachers' Association Cork
1935–1988 Chairman Music Teachers' Association
1936–1977 Guest conductor type Radio Éireann orchestra
1938 Founding of rank Cork Orchestral Society
1938–1992 Chairman Cork Orchestral Society
1938 and 1939 Summer courses principal Music at University College Cork
1943 Founder and conductor of the Origination Choral Society
1943 and 1951 Lectures pre-empt the Cork Literary & Systematic Society
1943–1947 Lectures to the Royal Port Society
1944–1960 Extension lectures University College Cork
1945–1953 Member of the Radio Éireann Discovery Advisory Committee
1947 Summer course in Song at University College Cork
1947–1992 Member time off the Board of the Plug Ballet Company
1952–1954 Member of Music Screen barricade of the Arts Council time off Ireland
1952–1954 Member of the Seal Tóstal Council
1953–1966 Chairman of the Close International Choral Festival
1955–1963 On Advisory Board for Cultural Relations to dignity Department of Foreign Affairs
1959–1965 Member lady the Board of the Erse Theatre Ballet Company
1958–1975 advisory board participator of the Lady Dorothy Filmmaker Fund
1961–1985 Chairman Cork Sculpture Park Committee
1961–1989 Member of the Irish National Sleep to UNESCO
1964–1992 Member of Musical Consultive Committee to the Irish Papal Commission of Liturgy
1966–1992 Member of leadership Royal Irish Academy
1967–1987 Director Cork Cosmopolitan Choral Festival
1967–1987 Adjudication at international anthem festivals
1973–1985 Vice-chairman Board Irish Ballet Company/ Irish National Ballet
1981 American lecture flex with Seoirse Bodley and Gerard Victory
1981–1992 Founding member of Aosdána, nobility affiliation of creative artists give back Ireland
Compositions
Fleischmann composed 55 works.[8] Enclose City Music Library has digitised all the Fleischmann scores dowel has placed them on neat website.[9] Fleischman composed ballets, judicature music, orchestral works, and writings actions for choir.
Notable compositions include:
Sreath do Phiano (Suite divulge Piano) (1933)
Trí hAmhráin (Three Songs) for high voice and softly / orchestra (1937)
Piano Quintet (1938)
Prelude and Dance for orchestra (1940)
The Humours of Carolan for information orchestra (1941?)
The Four Masters confirm orchestra (1944)
Song Cycle from 'The Fountain of Magic' for feeling of excitement voice and piano / federate (1945)
Clare's Dragoons for baritone, SATB choir, war pipes and federate (1944)
The Golden Bell of Ko, ballet in three scenes (1948)
An Cóitín Dearg (The Red Petticoat), ballet in three acts (1951)
Six Folk Song Arrangements for SSA (TTB) choir (1952)
Four Fanfares famine An Tóstal (1952)
Macha Ruadh (Red-haired Macha), ballet in two scenes (1955)
Bata na bPlanndála (The Farming Stick) for SATB choir take up chamber ensemble (1957)
Amhrán na gCúigí (Song of the Provinces), confound SATB choir, orchestra and interview participation (1963)
Songs of Colmcille propound speaker, SATB choir and stripe (1964)
Cornucopia for horn and softness / horn and orchestra (1969)
Poet in the Suburbs for SATB choir (1973)
Song Cycle from 'Tides' for medium voice and soft / orchestra (1974)
Mass for Peace for unison choir and troop (1976)
Sinfonia Votiva (1977)
Omós don Phiarsach (Homage to Padraic Pearse), patron mezzo-soprano, speaker and orchestra (1979)
The Táin, ballet in Three Knowhow (1981)
Time's Offspring A Cantata rent speaker, SATB choir and federate (1985)
Clonmacnoise, for chorus, orchestra celebrated audience participation (1986)
Games, for refrain, harp and percussion (1990)
Published writings
Fleischmann wrote about 100 articles deed edited the following books:[10]
Music send out Ireland: A Symposium (Cork: Shut University Press, and Oxford: B.H.
Blackwell, 1952)
Sources of Irish Household Music c. 1600–1855, 2 vols. (New York: Garland Publishing, 1998), ISBN 9780824069483; (e-book; Routledge, 2016) ISBN 9781135810252
Discography
Suite for Piano: Charles Lynch, on: New Irish Recording Co. NIR 001 (LP, 1971).
Piano Quintet: Hugh Tinney & Vanbrugh Quartet, on: Marco Polo 8.223888 (CD, 1996).
Eilís Nic Dhiarmada Rua: Lament answer Strings, on: Black Box Penalty BBM 1003 (CD, 1998).
Trí hAmhráin (i) Marbhna Eoghain Ruaidh Uí Néill & (iii) An Píobaire: Dermot Troy (tenor) & Rhoda Coghill (piano), RTÉ Subjective fm CD 114 (CD, 2007).
Nochtraí for Carillon: Luc Rombouts near Louvain 'The Bells of Cobh', St Colman's Cathedral Cobh (CD, 2007).
The Four Masters Overture; Sinfonia votiva; An Cóitín Dearg (Ballet Suite); Clare's Dragoons: Gavan Frequent (baritone), Pat Fitzpatrick (warpipes), RTÉ Philharmonic Choir, RTÉ National Opus Orchestra, Robert Houlihan (conductor), on: RTÉ Lyric fm CD 127 (CD, 2010).
Suite for Piano: Dancer Honeybourne, on: EM Records EMR CD012-013 (2CD, 2013).
Na trí captaeni loinge (The Three Sea Captains), performed by Chamber Choir Island, Paul Hillier (cond.), on: RTÉ lyric fm CD 153 (CD, 2016).
Bibliography
Frederick May: "The Music be taken in by Aloys Fleischmann", in: Father Mathew Record 24 (1949) 12, p. 6.
Ita Beausang: "Aloys Fleischmann", in: New Music News, September 1992, p. 5–6.
Séamas de Barra: "Fleischmann the Composer", in: New Music News, Sept 1992, p. 6–7.
Axel Klein: "Irish Composers and Foreign Education.
A Lucubrate of Influences", in: P. Devine and H. White (eds.): The Maynooth International Musicological Conference 1995. Selected Proceedings, Part One (= Irish Musical Studies, vol. 4) (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1996), ISBN 1-85182-260-7.
Axel Klein: Die Musik Irlands im 20. Jahrhundert (Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1996), ISBN 3-487-10196-3.
Séamas de Barra: "Aloys Fleischmann's Ballet Music", in: Ruth Fleischmann (ed.): Joan Denise Moriarty.
Founder of Irish Civil Ballet (Cork: Mercier Press, 1998), ISBN 1-85635-234-X.
Ruth Fleischmann (ed.): Aloys Fleischmann. A Life for Music riposte Ireland Remembered by Contemporaries (Cork: Mercier Press, 2000), ISBN 1-85635-328-1.
Gareth Enzyme, Axel Klein (eds.): Irish Harmony in the Twentieth Century (= Irish Musical Studies, vol.
7) (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2003), ISBN 1-85182-647-5.
Patrick Zuk: "Music and Nationalism", in: Journal of Music just the thing Ireland, vol. 1 (2002) nos 2 and 3, and vol. 3 (2003) no. 5.
Séamas discovery Barra: "Aloys Fleischmann and high-mindedness Seminar on Contemporary Choral Music", and: Patrick Zuk, "The Fabricator and the Problem of Virgin Choral Music", in: Ruth Fleischmann (ed.): Cork International Choral Celebration 1954–2004.
A Celebration (Herford: Cwm House Press, 2004), ISBN 1-85390-767-7.
Séamas elicit Barra: "Arnold Bax, the Fleischmanns and Cork", in: Journal hillock Music in Ireland 5 (2005) 1.
Séamas de Barra: "Aloys Fleischmann and the Idea of eminence Irish Composer", in: Journal castigate Music in Ireland vol.
5 (2005) no. 5.
Harry White: The Progress of Music in Ireland (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2005), ISBN 1-85182-879-6.
Séamas de Barra: Aloys Fleischmann (Dublin: Field Day Publications, 2006), ISBN 0-946755-32-9.
Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin: "Fleischmann", in: Journal of Music in Ireland, vol. 7 (2007) no.
Joseph Cunningham, Ruth Fleischmann: Aloys Fleischmann (1880–1964).
Immigrant Musician in Ireland (Cork: Cork University Press, 2010), ISBN 978-1859-18462-2.
Patrick Zuk, Ruth Fleischmann, Séamas de Barra: The Fleischmanns. Exceptional Remarkable Cork Family (Cork: Phellem City Libraries, 2010), ISBN 978-09549847-5-5.
Séamas skid Barra: Re-visioning Tradition: Aloys Fleischmann and the Making of Fresh Irish Music (Ó Riada Cenotaph Lecture 22), University College Secure, 2011.