Henry Hugh Pearson
Henry Hugh Pearson (12 April 1815 – 28 January 1873) was an English composer resident from 1845 in Germany. He is also known as Edgar Mansfeld, and when living in Germany as Heinrich Hugo Pierson.[1] He had success in his adopted country with his operas and songs but little in his own, and his music is now rarely performed. Hubert Parry took lessons with him in 1867.
Contents
Compositions (selective list)
Many of Pierson's manuscript full and vocal scores, including those of his oratorios and operas, appear not to have survived. The funeral march Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet and The Maid of Orleans were his only orchestral compositions to be published in full score (copies of which are held by the Library of Congress amongst other locations), whilst Jerusalem and Faust were only published in vocal score, with no orchestral material seeming to be extant. His operas remained unpublished, excepting the libretti. Manuscript material for several works does, however, survive including the Romantische Ouverture (orchestral parts, University Of Pennsylvania Library Ms Coll 217), Salve eternum (full score, Royal College of Music, London, RCM MS 502), the funeral march Hamlet (full score, Landesbibliothek, Coburg, Ms Mus 364), the first version of the overture to the opera Leila (full score, Landesbibliothek, Coburg, Ms Mus 369) and the opera Leila (57 orchestral and choral parts, University Library [Carl von Ossietzky Music Department], Hamburg, D-Hs/ ND VII 310).
Orchestral works
- c.1847 – Leila, overture [first version]
- c.1848 – Romantische Ouverture in D
- c.1848 – Hamlet, funeral march
- 1859 – Macbeth, symphonic poem, Op.54 (fp. Crystal Palace, London, 23 October 1875)
- 1860 – Grisetten-Polka
- c.1865 – Romeo and Juliet, overture, Op.86 (fp. Crystal Palace, London, 7 November 1874)
- 1867 – The Maid of Orleans, overture, Op.101
- c.1870 – As You Like It, overture (fp. Crystal Palace, London, 17 January 1874)
- Julius Caesar, overture
Choral works
- 1850 – Salve eternum, a Roman dirge for soprano, bass, chorus and orchestra, Op.30 [32 on MS]
- 1852 – Jerusalem, oratorio (fp. Norwich Festival, 23 September 1852)
- 1853 – Paradise, oratorio [unfinished]
- 1869 – Hezekiah, oratorio (fp. Norwich Festival, 1 September 1869) [unfinished, a 'selection' performed]
Dramatic works
- 1844–45 – Der Elfensieg, opera (fp. Brno, 7 May 1845)
- 1847–48 – Leila, opera (fp. Stadt-Theater, Hamburg 22 February 1848)
- 1854 – Faust (Part II), incidental music (fp. Stadt-Theater, Hamburg, 25 March 1854)
- 1853–72 – Contarini, oder Die Verschwörung zu Padua, opera (fp. Stadt-Theater, Hamburg, 16 April 1872)
Vocal works
- c.1862 – Mein Herz ist schwer, concert aria for voice and orchestra, Op.66
- c.1862 – Zu Ross, zu Ross (Sturmritt), for voice and orchestra, Op.69
- c.1859 – O Deutschland hoch in Ehren
References
External links
- Free scores by Henry Hugo Pierson at the International Music Score Library Project
- Wikisource:Pierson, Henry Hugo (DNB00) (Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, Vol. 45)
- de:Henry Hugo Pierson (German Wikipedia article) (can someone translate for this site?)
- Works by Henry Hugo Pierson at Project Gutenberg
- Lua error in Module:Internet_Archive at line 573: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Use dmy dates from November 2013
- Use British English from November 2013
- Pages with broken file links
- Articles with Internet Archive links
- 1815 births
- 1873 deaths
- English classical composers
- Romantic composers
- 19th-century classical composers
- English male classical composers
- English expatriates in Germany
- 19th-century English musicians
