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Edward Michael (1921-2006) was a classical composer of British origin. == Biography == After serving in the Royal Air Force during World War II, he began musical studies at the Guildhall School of Music where he learned composition. He worked with Berthold Goldschmidt (student of Hindemith), then with Mátyás Seiber (student of Zoltán Kodály ) and also studies the violin (with Max Rostal). In 1947, he won a first prize in orchestra conducting and started a career as a solo violinist. He gave numerous concerts in which he performed the thirty-five or so concertos that he had in his repertory as well as some fifty sonatas and more than two hundred other pieces for violin before leaving for Paris in 1950 to study with Nadia Boulanger. Due to painful health problems, he had to abandon his career as a violin soloist as well as a conductor. From then on, he devoted himself exclusively to composition and, considering that his work was related more to French classical music, spelled his name in French. He composed many orchestral pieces among them a Mass for mixed choir, two string orchestras, celesta, harp, glockenspiel and percussions. In 1954, he won the Vercelli prize for a Psalm for a male choir. Two years later, his Mass was performed by the orchestra of Radio France directed by Eugene Bigot. The next year, his Nocturne for flute and orchestra won the Lili Boulanger prize in the United States, given by a jury which included Igor Stravinsky and Aaron Copland. Edward Michael died in Nice in 2006. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Edward Michael S.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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