Klarinet Archive - Posting 000428.txt from 1998/05

From: "Don Yungkurth" <clarinet@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Re: Biographic Information
Date: Sat, 9 May 1998 16:39:20 -0400

Jorge Montilla wrote:

>Dear Colleagues:
>I need to know, to prepare the program notes of one incoming concert,
>information about Alfred Uhl and Gordon Jacob. (including Birth and Death
>dates)

>From CD notes I was able to find the following:

Alfred Uhl, 1909-1992

Alfred Uhl was born in Vienna in 1909, and studied at its Academy of Music
under Franz Schmidt from 1927 to 1931. He made his living as a freelance
composer, particularly of film music, in Zurich, Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin
and Istanbul. In 1945 he returned to the Vienna Academy of Music to become
a teacher there.

I hope you are doing his Divertimento for Three Clarinets and Bass
Clarinet!

Gordon Jacob, 1895-1984

Gordon Jacob was a professor of composition at the Royal College of Music
for more than 42 years. He was regarded as an authority on the subject of
orchestration. The balance of the notes aren't particularly helpful, as
they are trying to explain why "he remains to this day mysteriously and
perhaps unjustly slighted as a composer".

Don Yungkurth (clarinet@-----.net)

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