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Neaga, Stefan(b Cişinău, 24 Nov/7 Dec 1900; d 29 May 1951). Moldovan composer and pianist. Brought up in a musical family, he studied the piano with Yuly Guz at a music school in Cişinău (1912–18) and then at the Conservatory of Music and Dramatic Art in Bucharest where his teachers were Emilia Saegiu (piano) and Castaldi and Cuclin (composition). He then attended the Paris Conservatoire where he studied with Nadia Boulanger (composition), Alfred Cortot (piano) and Charles Münch (conducting). In the 1920s and 30s he gave concerts with the violinist Grigoras Dinicu and, after a spell teaching at the Moscow Conservatory evacuated to Saratov during World War II, in 1946 he joined the staff of the conservatory at Kishinev, where he also conducted the Moldovian State Philharmonia. He became the president of the Moldovan Composers' Union in the same year. He is possibly the most important figure in Moldovan music of the first half of the 20th century. He combines late Romanticism and Impressionism with aspects of Moldovan folk music in an output that spans most non-dramatic genres. He received the George Enescu prize twice (1934 and 1936) and the State Prize of the USSR (1950), in addition to various other awards and medals. WORKS(selective list)
BIBLIOGRAPHYN. Ilie: Stefan Neaga: viaţa şi opera [Neaga: life and works] (Kishinev, 1966) A. Sofronov: Stefan Neaga (Kishinev, 1981) ION PÁCURARU Neale.Irish family of music publishers, instrument makers and concert promoters. John Neale (or Neal; d after 1739) was active in Dublin musical circles from about 1714. In 1721 he described himself as an instrument maker in Christ Church Yard and was selling violins and imported printed music. By 1723 he was organizing weekly concerts at ‘Mr Neal's Musick Room in Christ Church Yard’ and in the same year was elected president of a social and musical club which later moved to the Bull's Head Tavern in Fishamble Street near Christ Church, subsequently becoming the Charitable and Musical Society. His son William (d 1769) was also active in the Charitable and Musical Society which, in October 1741, while William was treasurer, opened the New Musick Hall in Fishamble Street where in 1741–2 Handel gave concerts including the first performance of Messiah (13 April 1742). An advertisement in 1723 establishes John Neale as the first known violin maker in Ireland. At the end of the same year, together with William Neale, he published his first collection of music, described as ‘the first ever done in this Kingdom [i.e. Ireland]’. John and William Neale together published at least 18 musical volumes between 1723 and 1733, after which William published about ten further volumes up to 1744, the last few issued jointly with William Manwaring of College Green. Copies of only 16 of the Neales’ publications survive; 12 more are named in advertisements or in the three surviving catalogues. One of the most important volumes was A Colection of the most Celebrated Irish Tunes proper for the Violin German Flute or Hautboy; the collection was dated c1721 by Bunting (A Collection of the Ancient Music of Ireland, 1840) though in fact it was published in 1724. It is the earliest collection known to contain works of Turlough Carolan and also includes one tune ‘improved with diferent divitions after the Italian maner with A bass and Chorus by Sigr. Lorenzo Bocchi’. Another collection (defective) of Carolan tunes in the National Library of Ireland has been confused with this; it dates from after 1743 and is not connected with the Neales.
BIBLIOGRAPHYW.H. Flood: John and William Neale, Bibliographical Society of Ireland Publications, iii/8 (1928), esp. 85–9 L. Duignan: ‘A Checklist of the Publications of John and William Neale’, Irish Booklore, ii (1972), 230–37 N. Carolan, ed.: A Collection of the Most Celebrated Irish Tunes (Dublin, 1986) [facs.; list of pubns] B. Boydell: A Dublin Musical Calendar 1700–1760 (Blackrock, 1988) LASAIRÍONA DUIGNAN/BARRA R. BOYDELL Neaman, Yfrah(b Sidon [now Saïda], 13 Feb 1923). British violinist of Palestinian birth. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire and subsequently with Flesch, Thibaud and Rostal. He made his Paris début in 1937 and his London début with the LSO under Fistoulari in 1944 and from this time toured as a soloist throughout Europe, the USA and India. He played in duos with the pianists Howard Ferguson and David Wilde, and in a piano trio with Lamar Crowson and Eleanor Warren (cello). An admired and influential teacher, he has given masterclasses throughout the world, and taught the violin at the GSM, London, from 1958 t0 1978, from 1964 as head of the string department. Neaman's other appointments include artistic director of the Carl Flesch International Violin Competition (1970–88) and of the London International String Quartet Competition. His repertory ranges from the Baroque to contemporary music, and he gave the first performances of numerous works, including Gerhard's Chaconne, Michael Blake Watkins's Violin Concerto (1978) and Michael Berkeley's Sonata, all of which are dedicated to him. His recordings include works by Gerhard, Banks, Fricker and Ireland. Neaman's playing was stylish and elegant, with all the hallmarks of the French school. He played a ‘Golden Age’ Stradivarius dated 1724. He was made a Freeman of the City of London in 1980 and was created an OBE in 1983. BIBLIOGRAPHYSchwarzGM S. Collins: Interview, The Strad, xc (1979–80), 903–6; xci (1980–81), 22–4 E. Chadwick: ‘Confessions of a Flesch Pupil’, The Strad, cv (1994), 1220–25 MARGARET CAMPBELL Yüklə 10,2 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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