John McCabe

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John McCabe, (1939-to-date, February 13, 2015), a British composer and pianist, was born in 1939.

He produced music in a variety of styles, including symphonies, ballet, and solo piano works.

He served as the principal of the London College of Music from 1983 to 1990.

Guy Rickards characterized him as "one of Britain's finest composers in the last half-century" and "a pianist of enduring gifts and broad sympathies" (Rickards 2015).

Early life and education

McCabe was born in Huyton, Liverpool, on April 21, 1939. His father, an Irish physicist, and Elisabeth Herlitzius, a German/Finnish mother, was an amateur violinist. McCabe was badly burned as a child and was homeschooled for eight years. McCabe said that there was "a lot of music in the house" during his time, which inspired his future. "My mother was a really good amateur violinist, and there were albums and printed music everywhere." I was hoping that if all these guys, Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert, can do it, then so will I." McCabe had composed 13 symphonies by the age of 11, but he later banned them because they weren't strong enough. He subsequently attended Liverpool University.

Personal life

In 1974, he married Monica Smith, a former director of the Sittingbourne Music Society. McCabe was diagnosed with a brain tumour in December 2012. During his recovery, he began to compose music.

On February 13, 2015, John McCabe died after an unsuccessful long-lived cancer therapy session.

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Career

McCabe began studying composition with British composers Humphrey Procter-Gregg at Manchester University and with Thomas Pitfield at the Royal Manchester College of Music (now the Royal Northern College), and then at the Munich Hochschule for Music in 1964, where he continued studying composition with German composer Harald Genzmer and others. He began his career as both a composer and a virtuoso pianist. McCabe's early works were considered to have been overlooked by Guy Rickards because he was portrayed as a pianist rather than a composer. Notturni ed Alba, soprano and orchestra (1970), based on a series of poems in medieval Latin about the theme of night, was one of his early successes, and it was described as "an intoxicating work, full of tingling atmosphere, and slumbering passion." His Concerto for Orchestra (1982) brought him international famons. But it wasn't until the 1990s that he appeared primarily as a composer, with the publication of his fourth symphony, William Mathias, and Stephen Oliver (1992–94), which featured the deaths of musicians Sir Charles Groves, William Mathias, and Stephen Oliver (1991–94), which gave David Bintley's choreography the 1998 TMA/Barclays Theatre Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance, which was not until the 1990s.

He worked in almost every field, but large-scale works lay at the center of his catalog, with seven symphonies, two dozen concertante works, and eight ballet scores to his name. Four concerts include four for his own piano (1966–76), three for one or two violins (1979), viola (1976), and clarinet and oboe (1988). Seven string quartets were influenced by the Lake District's landscape in 1979, the third of which (1979) was inspired by the Lake District's landscape. Gaud (1970), inspired by Islamic art; and a series of seven (2000–9) each explicitly drawing inspiration from a different composer. The Haydn Variations (1983), written to celebrate Joseph Haydn's birth in 250 years, are among Joseph Haydn's most popular piano works.

McCabe's style progressed from a lyrical constructivism to a serialist period, with a fascination with repetitive patterns leading to a more complex set of processes and a more subtle representation of continuity. Vaughan Williams, Britten, Tippett, and Karl Amadeus Hartmann were among his influences, according to Rickards, who was also influenced by non-classical music, such as rock and jazz.

He had a long association with the Presteigne Festival, an annual classical music festival held in Powys County, Wales. In 1984, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center had him compose Rainforest I.

McCabe was first identified as a pianist. His collection spanned everything from classical to modern composers. He was specialized in twentieth-century music, mainly in English composers. He appeared in John Corigliano's Piano Concerto in the United Kingdom. He also concentrated on Haydn's piano sonatas, with Gramophone Magazine lauding McCabe's 1970s-era recording of Haydn's piano sonatas as "definitive" and "one of the top recorded monuments of the keyboard repertoire.

Julian Lloyd Webber, a cellist, has recorded several CDs with him.

McCabe, pianist in residence at Cardiff University, from 1965 to 1968. He served as the head of the London College of Music from 1983 to 1990, where his attempts to raise the college's profile resulted in the college's merging with Thames Valley University (currently University of West London) in 1991.

During the 1990s, he taught visiting professorships at the universities of Melbourne, Australia, and Cincinnati, United States. Gary Kulesha, a Canadian composer, is one of his most popular pupils.

In addition, McCabe wrote books on contemporary English composer Alan Rawsthorne, Bartók and Rachmaninoff.

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Awards

• 1985 – Appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for his services to British music.
• 2003 – Recipient of The Distinguished Musician Award from the Incorporated Society of Musicians.
• 2006 - Awarded a Honorary Doctorate in Music from the University of Liverpool.
• 2014 - Won the Classical Music Award at the 59th Ivor Novello Awards.