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  Peter Warlock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Peter Warlock was a pseudonym of Philip Arnold Heseltine (October 30, 1894 - December 17, 1930), an Anglo-Welsh composer and music critic.
For Warlock, however, this was one of the most fruitful periods of his life, but by the end of the 1920s his creativity was on the decrease and he had to support himself on music criticism again.
Warlock is also known for his many carols, such as Adam Lay Ybounden, Tyrley Tyrlow and Bethlehem Down, the latter a setting of words by Blunt.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_Warlock   (988 words)

  
 Composers: Warlock
Arnold Dowbiggin, dedicatee of several Warlock songs, related that he once heard four versions of There is a Lady; recorded here are the original 1919 song and Passing by, the other surviving setting and the one to use all six verses of the poem.
By the mid-1920s Warlock was considered an authority on Elizabethan music and in the course of his life he edited over three hundred Elizabethan and Jacobean lute songs for voice and keyboard or for choir, working with Philip Wilson.
It is a sign of Warlock's sense of humour that he issued sets of songs such as Peterisms I, the apt name having been borrowed - perhaps equally aptly, given his lifestyle - from a brewer's advertisement.
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 Peter Warlock books in print.
Warlock scholars are recommended to add this book to their small but unique collection of literature pertaining to a figure (in the musical sense) of inimitable quality.
Peter Warlock is one of several pseudonyms adopted by the critic, researcher, editor and composer.
Peter Warlock (1894 - 1930) is one of the great song-writers of the English tradition, and among composers of modern times the only one who can bear comparison with the masters of the Elizabethan-Jacobean tradition.
www.peterwarlock.org /PWBOOKS.HTM   (3975 words)

  
 Classical Net - Composers - Warlock
Warlock's interest in Delius's music had begun as early as 1909 and, by the time of his first meeting with Delius at that concert in 1911, he had already become obsessed with his music.
At the beginning of 1925 Warlock decided to settle in Eynsford where he ran a kind of open house and it is from this period that much of the Warlock 'legend' originates.
Warlock is essentially a miniaturist and the largest part of his output consists of solo songs with piano accompaniment.
www.classical.net /music/comp.lst/acc/warlock.html   (1787 words)

  
 Peter Warlock - Biography - AOL Music
Born Phillip Heseltine, Warlock was an English composer known mostly for his songs.
Warlock learned by making arrangements of Delius' scores and in 1923 Warlock published a book on Delius.
The two names are apparently representative of a dichotomy of his personality; the gentle, introspective Heseltine and the cynical, extroverted Warlock, composer of drinking songs.
music.aol.com /artist/peter-warlock/1478/biography   (274 words)

  
 BBC - Mid Wales Arts - Peter Warlock
Warlock sometimes deputised for George Wroughton, the organist of Llandyssil Church, and was a regular visitor to Montgomery.
Warlock's correspondence is also remarkable for its lyrical descriptions of 'all the wild loveliness of mid Wales';: Montgomeryshire's mists and snows, her hills, moors, twilights, birds and blossom.
Warlock thought nothing of hiking 50 or 60 miles a day, dossing down overnight as he went, from Aran Fawddwy and Lake Vyrnwy in the north to Lampeter, Abbey Cwmhir and the Golden Valley in the south.
www.bbc.co.uk /wales/mid/sites/arts/pages/peter_warlock_biog.shtml   (953 words)

  
 Peter Warlock   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
'Peter Warlock - Some Little Joy', is a film which concentrates on the Eynsford years in the 1920's, when the composer E.J.Moeran shared a cottage with Warlock, and introduces the society of friends and fellow artists who played important roles in Warlock's life, and his close personal relationships.
Since I was a child I have loved the music of Peter Warlock, as a boy treble singing his carols and later as a tenor attempting to do justice to his art songs.
Peter Warlock was the pseudonym of Philip Heseltine, one of many that he used throughout his short life.
gilesdavies.moonfruit.com /peterwarlock/4516421753   (1250 words)

  
 The Peter Warlock Society
Warlock’s journalism for The Daily Mail, The Musical Times and other organs is augmented by his truncated editorship of The Sackbut, large chunks of which he wrote himself necessitating the invention of other, increasingly fanciful pseudonyms.
To Warlock, though, van Dieren was a godsend and that may explain the extent of the former’s proselytising and devotion.
Warlock may be principally known for his suite Capriol (of which more later) and as a writer of piano-songs but it probably less well known that a number of pieces for unaccompanied choir forms an important part of his oeuvre.
www.peterwarlock.org /ARCHIVE.HTM   (9118 words)

  
 Luck's Music Library - Featured Composer - Peter Warlock
Peter Warlock adopted this pseudonym and published his first mature works between 1917 and 1918 in Ireland.
In the mid 1920s, Warlock moved to Kent where he was unruly and had many run-ins with local authorities.
Though the majority of Warlock's compositions are songs, two of his best-known works, the "Capriol Suite" (08374) and Serenade for Strings (11628), are for chamber orchestra.
www.lucksmusic.com /featured/warlock.asp   (194 words)

  
 Collected Letters of Peter Warlock
Warlock gained a certain notoriety through the fact that a thinly-disguised version of his larger-than-life character features in so many literary works.
The composer Philip Heseltine (1894-1930), better known by his pseudonym Peter Warlock, is one of the most fascinating characters in twentieth-century English music.
Besides giving new insights into Warlock's mercurial character, these letters illuminate the first thirty years of the twentieth century with fascinating glimpses of some of the great names in the world of music, art and literature.
www.boydellandbrewer.com /britmusic1.htm   (389 words)

  
 Composer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Peter Warlock died in December 1930 of gas poisoning, whether by accident or suicide.
Warlock is remembered in particular for his Capriol Suite, an attractive reworking for string orchestra of French dance music of the sixteenth century, also arranged for piano duet and fuller orchestra.
A number of his carols have a firm place in Christmas choral repertoire, while his many songs form a remarkable body of work, influenced by Delius, Van Dieren, and the Elizabethan and Jacobean composers that had formed the core of his musicological studies as Philip Heseltine.
www.naxos.com /composer/btm.asp?fullname=Warlock,+Peter   (316 words)

  
 Sleeve Notes - Songs by Peter Warlock
Philip Heseltine was born in London in 1894 and in his short life won public acclaim for the songs he wrote under the pseudonym Peter Warlock.
Arnold Dowbiggin, dedicatee of several Warlock songs, related that he once heard four versions of There is a Lady; recorded here are the original 1919 song (track 6) and Passing by (track 32), the other surviving setting and the one to use all six verses of the poem.
Early in 1925 Warlock, Moeran and Collins moved to a cottage in Eynsford, Kent, and there followed the third prolific period.
www.hyperion-records.co.uk /notes/66736.html   (1330 words)

  
 The Peter Warlock Biography Page on Classic Cat
He used the pseudonym Peter Warlock as a composer and his real name as a critic, but is now better known as Peter Warlock.
He was suffering from severe depression, but whether his death from gas poisoning at the age of 36 was a suicide or an accident, is not known.
An intreguing figure, Warlock has served to inspire several characters in English-language literature, among them: Coleman in Aldus Huxley's Antic Hay (1923), Roy Hartle in Osbert Sitwell's Those Were the Days (1938), Giles Revelstoke in Robertson Davies' A Mixture of Frailties (1958) and Maclintick in Casanova's Chinese Restaurant (1960) by Anthony Powell.
www.classiccat.net /warlock_p/biography.htm   (922 words)

  
 The Warlock Singers - Home
The Warlock Singers, based in Crockham Hill, Kent, was founded in 2004 in memory of the composer and musicologist Philip Heseltine, better known by his pen name Peter Warlock.
The Warlock Singers' inaugural concerts were held in Limpsfield, Surrey and in Eynsford, Kent, where Peter Warlock lived between the years of 1925 and 1928 and wrote some of his most inspired music during this period.
The legendary tales of Warlock and his contemporaries and their regular gatherings at various pubs in the area (there were 27 within a four mile radius at the time) may suggest that his Eynsford life was one long orgy of drinking and revelry, but in fact it was a time of great creative industry.
www.warlock-singers.org   (478 words)

  
 Peter Warlock   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
English composer Peter Warlock was born Philip Heseltine.
In addition to composing, Warlock transcribed a large amount of early music (570 published items), made a number of arrangements of Delius’s work, and wrote 9 books and 73 articles, including books on Delius and Gesualdo.
Warlock is credited with contributing greatly to the rediscovery of early English music.
www.stmartinschamberchoir.org /Education/Bios/BioWarlock.htm   (214 words)

  
 Peter Warlock   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Peter Warlock was a composer, music journalist and author, and was an admirer and friend of Frederick Delius.
Warlock (Heseltine) wrote the first book-length biography of Delius in 1923, and also was a significant force behind the Delius Festival of 1929.
The first recording I heard of Warlock's Serenade was on an Epic LP by the Cleveland Sinfonietta conducted by Louis Lane.
members.fortunecity.com /wbthomp/warlock.html   (220 words)

  
 Warlock Peter - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Warlock Peter - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Warlock, Peter (real name Philip Heseltine; 1894-1930), British composer, critic, editor, and writer.
Throughout his life the composer Peter Warlock had attracted attention for his apparent occult associations and legendary lifestyle, as well as for...
uk.encarta.msn.com /Warlock_Peter.html   (91 words)

  
 Warlock The Curlew etc.[JQ]: Classical CD Reviews- July 2003 MusicWeb(UK)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Warlock’s The Curlew, a cycle of four songs plus an instrumental interlude is a strange work indeed.
The accompaniment for string quartet, flute and cor anglais is in itself unconventional but the soundworld which the work inhabits is also highly individual and the prevailing mood of melancholy is pretty much unrelieved.
He gives a rousing performance of ‘Peter Warlock’s Fancy’ (track 9) and is most eloquent in ‘Bright is the ring of words’ (track 14) — though I must say I don’t think this song is a patch on Vaughan Williams’ setting of the same text in his Songs of Travel.
www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2003/Aug03/Warlock_Curlew.htm   (913 words)

  
 Classical Net - Peter Warlock - Bibliography
Mellers: 'Delius and Peter Warlock', Scrutiny, 5 (1937), 384-97
Smith: 'Peter Warlock: A Study of the Composer through the Letters to Colin Taylor between 1911 and 1929.' (diss.
Use of text, images, or any other copyrightable material contained in these pages, without the written permission of the copyright holder, except as specified in the Copyright Notice, is strictly prohibited.
www.classical.net /~music/comp.lst/articles/warlock/biblio.html   (611 words)

  
 Warlock The Curlew etc. [RB]: Classical CD Reviews- April 2003 MusicWeb(UK)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Warlock was reckoned to have been to blame for Moeran's descent into alcohol and depression.
Maltman's baritone is usually steady-sturdy with a touch of Peter Pears in his voice.
Peter Warlock's Fancy is well swung by Maltman - well named) as also is Captain Stratton's Fancy.
www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2003/May03/Warlock_Curlew.htm   (818 words)

  
 Peter Warlock - Wikipedia
Peter Warlock, pseudonimo di Philip Heseltine (Londra, 30 ottobre 1894 - Londra, 17 dicembre 1930) è stato un compositore inglese.
Warlock fu compositore, giornalista musicale ed autore, collaborò con il compositore e critico musicale Cecil Gray.
Particolarmente felice fu sempre la scelta, da parte di Warlock, dei testi, tutti sempre di altissimo valore artistico, molti dei quali tratti da opere di autori medioevali.
it.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_Warlock   (936 words)

  
 BBC - Mid Wales Arts - Peter Warlock Festival
I am preparing an illustrated life of Warlock for publication and was invited by Montgomery Civic Society to give their annual Christmas lecture on the subject of the composer.
The Festival will open with an illustrated lecture on Peter Warlock in Montgomeryshire (Friday, 16 December, 7.30pm), outlining latest research discoveries as well as rare photographs to be published in the Illustrated Life of the composer.
Then, at 11.30am - 75 years exactly after Warlock was pronounced dead on 17 December 1930 - the crime writer and retired Home Office pathologist, Professor Bernard Knight CBE, will re-examine the evidence surrounding the discovery of the composer's body in his gas-filled Chelsea flat (Peter Warlock's death: a mystery or not?).
www.bbc.co.uk /wales/mid/sites/arts/pages/warlock_festival.shtml   (686 words)

  
 The Peter Warlock Society
Although Peter Warlock (Philip Heseltine) died in 1930, his magnetism is as potent as ever.
Philip Heseltine/Peter Warlock, a man of many inter-connected talents was born in the Savoy Hotel, London, on 30 October 1894.
Events included a Gregynog weekend (23/5 Sept), a Song Prize (26 Oct), a Chelsea Chronotopographical Crawl (29 Oct), all culminating at his birthplace The Savoy on his birthday, Sunday 30 October, with a service in the chapel, a lunch in the Lancaster Room, and a concert in the Theatre.
www.hyperion-records.co.uk /societies/warlock.html   (978 words)

  
 Peter Warlock program notes (Nov'04) | Chamber Orchestra of the Springs
But the Death of Philip Heseltine (whom an even wider public knew as Peter Warlock) was a tragedy.
"Peter Warlock" was a pen name for composer, scholar, and critic Philip Heseltine (1894-1930), who is perhaps most widely remembered for his biography of English composer Frederick Delius.
His works were kept in the public eye mostly via English choral ensembles, but the late 20th century saw a revival of Warlock's music that endures today.
www.chamberorchestraofthesprings.org /Warlok4B.htm   (198 words)

  
 Delius,Peter Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
Devoted to nude and erotic photography by women photographers, this new exciting book illustrates the emotional force and sensual beauty of the female body as seen through the feminine lens.
The Eton schoolboy, Philip Heseltine (Peter Warlock), was not yet 17 when he first met his musical hero Frederick Delius at a concert in 1911.
Peter Delius presents a carefully crafted and powerfully argued study of politics in rural South Africa from the 1930s to the 1980s.
www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Delius,Peter   (486 words)

  
 100 By Warlock - Genii Magazine, The Conjurors' Magazine - Magic's oldest independent magicians magazine, published ...
Many years ago at my request Peter Warlock selected 100 of his favorite effects and routines from the many hundreds he published over the years.
His daughter Liz Warlock has turned them into a book with hundreds of illustrations by Dennis Patten.
If you have any questions, or wish to review the status of your subscription to order 100 by Warlock, please call our office at 301-652-5800 during east coast business hours and we’ll be happy to answer any questions you may have.
www.geniimagazine.com /books/100bywarlock/index.html   (317 words)

  
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