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The Music Of Margaret Sutherland
Dr David Symonds Price: $24.95
Margaret Sutherland is generally regarded as one of the most important Australian composers of her era
Born into an unusually gifted family, she studied with Edward Goll in Melbourne before embarking on a career as concert pianist and teacher. But her passion was to compose
Despite financial constraints, her determination took her to Europe where she gained a wide acquaintance with the works of major composers such as Debussy, Ravel, Stravinsky, Bartok and the Viennese school
Back in Australia she fought isolation and indifference as, in the words of Roger Covell, she “naturalised the twentieth century in Australian music”
David Symons examines Sutherland’s music and its stylistic development in the context of Australian composition
From a wide variety of sources he has unearthed both published and unpublished compositions through which he shows Sutherland’s pioneering role as the first native-born composer working in Australia to write in an idiom comparable to her European contemporaries
