Occupation(s) Pianist Role Composer | Name Hamish MacCunn Instruments Piano Genres Classical music | |
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Died August 2, 1916, London, United Kingdom Compositions The Land of the Mountain and the Flood, The Land of the Mountain and the Flood, Jeanie Deans: "Sleep for the day is done" (Effie), Jeanie Deans: "Sleep for the day is done" (Effie), In the Glen, In the Glen, Jeanie Deans: "I love a lass that's fair to see" (Dumbiedykes), Jeanie Deans: "I love a lass that's fair to see" (Dumbiedykes), The Lay of the Last Minstrel: Recitative "Breathes there the man - with soul so dead", The Lay of the Last Minstrel: Recitative "Breathes there the man - with soul so dead", Jeanie Deans: "Why com'st thou thus - dear sister?" (Jeanie), Jeanie Deans: "Why com'st thou thus - dear sister?" (Jeanie), Jeanie Deans: "That shout! the people have their victim safe" (Staunton), Jeanie Deans: "That shout! the people have their victim safe" (Staunton), Jeanie Deans: Introduction, Jeanie Deans: Introduction, The Ship o' the Fiend, The Ship o' the Fiend, Jeanie Deans: "O father - father - shame indeed is mine" (Effie), Jeanie Deans: "O father - father - shame indeed is mine" (Effie), Jeanie Deans: "Thou hast shamed our honest blood!" (Deans), Jeanie Deans: "Thou hast shamed our honest blood!" (Deans), I Will Think of Thee My Love, I Will Think of Thee My Love, Jeanie Deans: "O God - whose eyes can never look on sin" (Jeanie), Jeanie Deans: "O God - whose eyes can never look on sin" (Jeanie), Jeanie Deans: "O friends - I said but now" (Deans), Jeanie Deans: "O friends - I said but now" (Deans), Jeanie Deans: "What can it be that weighs upon my spirit?" (Jeanie), Jeanie Deans: "What can it be that weighs upon my spirit?" (Jeanie), Jeanie Deans: "Oh! would that I again could see" (Effie), Jeanie Deans: "Oh! would that I again could see" (Effie), The Lay of the Last Minstrel: Chorus "O Caledonia! stern and wild", The Lay of the Last Minstrel: Chorus "O Caledonia! stern and wild", The Dowie Dens o' Yarrow, The Dowie Dens o' Yarrow, Jeanie Deans: "Nay - neighbour - take it not so hard" (Chorus), Jeanie Deans: "Nay - neighbour - take it not so hard" (Chorus), Jeanie Deans: "O Effie - darling - love!" (Staunton), Jeanie Deans: "O Effie - darling - love!" (Staunton) Similar People Liza Lehmann, Martyn Brabbins, BBC Scottish Symphon, Alexander Gibson, Alexander Mackenzie | ||
Hamish maccunn land of the mountain the flood overture
Hamish MacCunn (22 March 1868 – 2 August 1916) was a Scottish Romantic composer, conductor and teacher. His opera Diarmid (libretto by the Marquis of Lome), was produced at Covent Garden on 23 October 1897. His other music includes cantatas, concert overtures, part-songs, instrumental pieces and songs, all markedly Scottish in type. He had a genuine love of Scottish folksong, and although he lived in London he was a lifelong champion of Scottish music and of the country’s musical life.
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- Hamish maccunn land of the mountain the flood overture
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Hamish maccunn plaid dance op 28 no 5
Biography
Born in Greenock as James MacCunn, the son of a shipowner, he went to London in 1883 and was educated at the Royal College of Music, where his teachers included Sir Hubert Parry and Sir Charles Villiers Stanford. His first success was with the overture The Land of the Mountain and the Flood on 5 November 1887 at the Crystal Palace, and this remains far and away his best-known piece. It was followed by other compositions, always with a characteristic Scottish colouring. From 1888 to 1894 McCunn was a professor at the Royal College of Music, where he had a long artistic association and friendship with Marmaduke Barton.
In 1888, he married Alison Pettie, daughter of John Pettie, RA, who had painted MacCunn's portrait several times. They had one son. John Pettie was an enthusiastic musician, who helped MacCunn build up his career by organising concerts of his work. It was at this point that Carl Rosa commissioned MacCunn to write an opera on a Scottish subject. The world premiere of his first opera, Jeanie Deans, conducted by the composer, took place at the Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh on 15 November 1894. He was for some years a conductor with the Carl Rosa Opera Company and subsequently to other companies. A hectic programme of composing, conducting and teaching brought about a gradual deterioration in MacCunn's health, and he died in 1916 aged only 48.