Frederick Delius and Peter Warlock: A Friendship Revealed (review)
2001; Music Library Association; Volume: 58; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1353/not.2001.0133
ISSN1534-150X
Autores Tópico(s)Diverse Musicological Studies
ResumoAnyone acquainted with seminal biographical works on Frederick Delius and Peter Warlock--or, as he appears in this book with his real name, Philip Heseltine--will have naturally retained a major fascination for the relationship between these two men of quite different temperaments. Some facts have been well known for many years: that Heseltine, though attracted to Delius's music beforehand, experienced an almost damascene conversion in 1911 when he heard Edward Mason conduct Songs of Sunset; that a relationship of mentor and disciple emerged that culminated in Heseltine's critical biography of Delius in 1923 (Frederick Delius [London: Bodley Head]) and the Serenade for Frederick Delius for string orchestra (1922); that Heseltine did a great deal to assist Delius before and during the onset of the latter's debilitating illness; and that, in the closing years of Heseltine's tragically short life (not unlike Friedrich Nietzsche's retreat from his earlier fanatical pursuit of Richard Wagner), he became, according to Eric Fenby, much cooler toward Delius's music and artistic outlook as his earlier phase of youthful infatuation waned and his enthusiasms for other European developments (largely antipathetical to Delius) emerged.
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