Percy Sherwood ( Sherwood ; May 23, 1866 , Dresden - May 15, 1939 , London ) is a German-British composer and pianist.
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He was born in the family of John Sherwood (1837-1897), an Englishman who from 1865 until the end of his life taught English and literature at the Dresden Polytechnic and published the book “About Wordsworth” (1896). The mother of Percy Sherwood, the German August Koch, according to some sources, was a chamber singer [4] .
He studied at the Dresden Conservatory (1885-1889) with Hermann Scholz and Bertrand Roth (piano), Felix Dreseke and Theodor Kirchner (composition). In 1889 he was awarded the Mendelssohn scholarship for his Requiem. In the same year he undertook a tour, accompanying the singer Ethelke Gerster . From 1893 he taught piano in his alma mater, since 1911 a professor; Dora Peyachevich studied privately with Sherwood, who dedicated her “Waltzes-Caprices” (1910) to the teacher. For some time he led the Neustadt Choral Society. He enjoyed the greatest recognition as a composer: the Sherwood string quartet was awarded the prize of the All-German Musical Society (1899), his first piano concerto (1895), symphony (1902), and serenade for orchestra (1910) were received with favorable reviews.
The outbreak of World War I caught Sherwood with his wife and daughter on vacation in England; Having learned about the internment of the British in Germany, they decided not to return. Sherwood spent the rest of his life in England, where he was little known. He gave numerous private piano lessons, the only time he gave a solo concert (from the works of Johannes Brahms ) and practically fell out of the musical life of his time, although he continued to compose.
Sherwood’s legacy, preserved in the German late Roman tradition, includes three symphonies (1887, 1892, 1907), concerts for violin (1902), cello (1890-1893, 1902), violin and cello (1908), piano (1887, 1932) with an orchestra, violin and cello sonatas, piano music, including many miniatures.
Interest in Sherwood’s work arose again in the 21st century. His second piano concerto (1932) in 2011 was recorded by Hiroaki Takenuti (with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra , conductor Martin Yates ), a year later Joseph Spooner and David Owen Norris released an album with all Sherwood’s compositions for cello and piano.
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- ↑ 1 2 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
- ↑ SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ International Music Score Library Project - 2006.
- ↑ Degener's Wer ist's? - Berlin, 1935. - Bd. 10 .-- S. 1495. (German)