Book contents
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Foreword: “The Glowing of Such Fire”—A Tribute to Ralph Kirkpatrick
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One Family
- Part Two Friends, Colleagues, and Other Correspondence
- 2 Nadia Boulanger
- 3 Alexander Mackay-Smith
- 4 Wanda Landowska
- 5 John Challis
- 6 Serge Koussevitzky
- 7 Oliver Strunk
- 8 Roger Sessions
- 9 Harold Spivacke
- 10 Steinway & Sons
- 11 New York Times
- 12 Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge
- 13 John Kirkpatrick
- 14 Alexander Schneider
- 15 Otto Luening
- 16 Donald Boalch
- 17 John Hamilton
- 18 Thornton Wilder
- 19 Lincoln Kirstein
- 20 Arthur Mendel
- 21 Edward Steuremann
- 22 Frank Martin
- 23 Olin Downes
- 24 Albert Fuller
- 25 Elliott Carter
- 26 Quincy Porter
- 27 Vincent Persichetti
- 28 Henry Cowell
- 29 Mel Powell
- 30 Bengt Hambraeus
- 31 Alec Hodson
- 32 Paul Fromm
- 33 Wolfgang Zuckermann
- 34 Kenneth Gilbert
- 35 Mr. and Mrs. George Young
- 36 Colin Tilney
- 37 Oliver Daniel
- 38 Eliot Fisk
- 39 Wilton Dillon
- 40 William Dowd
- 41 Meredith Kirkpatrick
- Afterword: Lessons with Kirkpatrick
- Appendixes
30 - Bengt Hambraeus
from Part Two - Friends, Colleagues, and Other Correspondence
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2014
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Foreword: “The Glowing of Such Fire”—A Tribute to Ralph Kirkpatrick
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One Family
- Part Two Friends, Colleagues, and Other Correspondence
- 2 Nadia Boulanger
- 3 Alexander Mackay-Smith
- 4 Wanda Landowska
- 5 John Challis
- 6 Serge Koussevitzky
- 7 Oliver Strunk
- 8 Roger Sessions
- 9 Harold Spivacke
- 10 Steinway & Sons
- 11 New York Times
- 12 Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge
- 13 John Kirkpatrick
- 14 Alexander Schneider
- 15 Otto Luening
- 16 Donald Boalch
- 17 John Hamilton
- 18 Thornton Wilder
- 19 Lincoln Kirstein
- 20 Arthur Mendel
- 21 Edward Steuremann
- 22 Frank Martin
- 23 Olin Downes
- 24 Albert Fuller
- 25 Elliott Carter
- 26 Quincy Porter
- 27 Vincent Persichetti
- 28 Henry Cowell
- 29 Mel Powell
- 30 Bengt Hambraeus
- 31 Alec Hodson
- 32 Paul Fromm
- 33 Wolfgang Zuckermann
- 34 Kenneth Gilbert
- 35 Mr. and Mrs. George Young
- 36 Colin Tilney
- 37 Oliver Daniel
- 38 Eliot Fisk
- 39 Wilton Dillon
- 40 William Dowd
- 41 Meredith Kirkpatrick
- Afterword: Lessons with Kirkpatrick
- Appendixes
Summary
Bengt Hambraeus (1928–2000) was a Swedish composer, organist, musicologist, and teacher. He was best known for his compositions for organ, but he also composed several operas as well as a number of orchestral, choral, and chamber works. He taught at McGill University from 1972 to 1995. Although he wrote the Concerto for Organ and Harpsichord in 1947 (revised in 1951), I found no evidence that he completed the harpsichord concerto mentioned in RK's letter to him.
March 16, 1961
Dear Mr. Hambraeus:
Your letter finally reached me on my return from a long tour and I hasten to answer. Forgive my writing in English, but dictation goes faster.
I am delighted that you are at work on a harpsichord concerto. The instrumentation sounds exceedingly interesting, and I am quite pleased by the absence of strings. This kind of instrumentation, of course, means that eventual performances in this country can only be done with large orchestras, and I hope that the solistic element in the harpsichord part is sufficient to warrant the attention of orchestras and conductors to this as a piece for a visiting soloist. I shall be eager to hear further news of the piece.
I trust that all is going well with you and your wife, and I look forward to seeing you again next March. Through the spring and summer I expect to stay at home so that if your piece is finished, I would very much like to see it since until October I shall have plenty of time for work.
All best greetings,
Sincerely,
Ralph Kirkpatrick
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- Ralph KirkpatrickLetters of the American Harpsichordist and Scholar, pp. 130Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2014