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Henry-Louis de La Grange (born Paris, 26 May 1924) is a musicologist and biographer of Gustav Mahler

He was born of an American mother and a French father, who was a senator, one-time government minister, and Vice-President of the International Aviation Federation. He studied the Humanities in Paris and New York and Literature at Aix-en-Provence University and at the Sorbonne. From 1946 to 1947 he studied music at the Yale University School of Music and subsequently, from 1948 until 1953, privately in Paris - piano under Yvonne Lefébure, harmony, counterpoint, and analysis under Nadia Boulanger.

De La Grange began his career as a music critic in 1952, writing for Opera News, Saturday Review, New York Herald, New York Times, Musical America, Opus magazine in the United States, and Arts, Disques, La Revue Musicale, and Harmonie in France.

Since 1953, his main interest has been Mahler's life and works. His research took him to most of the major libraries and archives of Europe and North America. He sought out and consulted the surviving witnesses of Mahler's life and times, made the acquaintance of Alma Mahler in 1952 and became a close friend of her daughter Anna. During these years of research, he amassed a vast archive of documents of all kinds, which constitute one of the richest existing collections concerning Mahler and his epoch. His files and collection of autographs, documents and pictures now form the nucleus of the Mahler Multimedia Library (Médiathèque Musicale Mahler) which he founded with Maurice Fleuret in 1986. Its large collections of autographs, documents, books and records are now open to musicians, scholars, students and journalists from all over the world.

Lecturing on Mahler for many years, Henry-Louis de La Grange has toured the United States, Canada, England, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Belgium, Holland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Spain, Italy, Morocco and, in the Far East, Japan, Hong Kong, Indonesia, the Philippines, Australia, New Zealand, etc; he directed the Festival "Les Nuits d'Alziprato" in Corsica for five years (1974-1979), and in the Summer of 1986 the Mahler Festival in Toblach (Dobbiaco, Italy).

He produced or took part in many broadcasts on radio and television, including 34 two-hour programs on France-Musique (Radio) on the life and work of Mahler, six one-hour programs for WGUC (Public Radio) in Cincinnati, U.S.A, and a series of six on Mahler’s last years for Radio Suisse Romande. He also collaborated in the conception and production of the first large-scale exhibition on Mahler: "Une Oeuvre, une Vie, une Epoque" at the Musée d'Art moderne, Paris, in 1985, which attracted over 27,000 visitors, thus breaking all previous records for a musical exhibition. In the same context, he organized two international Mahler symposiums, in Paris and Montpellier, and two other exhibitions in Paris at the Châtelet and the Bibliothèque Gustav Mahler on the occasion of the performance of the complete Mahler cycle from February to May 1989 (5 lectures and another symposium held at the Sorbonne).

In 1991-1993, he acted as advisor for the Mahler cycle given by the Orchestre national de Lyon. In 1999, he organized an International Symposium about "Irony in Mahler's Music" at the University of Montpellier. In 1998, he spent three weeks in San Francisco as guest lecturer for the Orchestra's "Mahler Celebration", and he was one of the first occidental musicologists to lecture about Mahler in Beijing. In 2000 he toured the United States and Mexico as a lecturer, and in 2002 he gave four pre-concert talks in Philadelphia and New York for the Philadelphia Orchestra.

Honors and Awards :
 * Title of Professor, Austrian government, 1988
 * Charles Flint Kellogg Award in Arts and Letters from Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y., 2002
 * Medal of Officer of the Order of the Légion d'honneur (2006)
 * Österreichisches Ehrenkreuz für Wissenschaft und Kunst 1. Klasse (2010)
 * IGMG Vienna, Gold Medal of the Internationale Gustav Mahler Gesellschaft (2010)
 * Honorary Doctor of Music, The Juilliard School, 2010

Publications (Selection):

Books:
 * Mahler, vol. I (1860-1901), Garden City, New York, Doubleday & Co, 1973, 982 p.
 * Mahler, vol. I (1860-1901), London, Gollancz, 1974, 987 p.
 * Gustav Mahler


 * vol. 1: Les chemins de la gloire (1860-99).
 * vol. 2: L'âge d'or de Vienne (1900-07).


 * vol. 3: Le génie foudroyé (1907-11).


 * Paris, Fayard, 1979, 1983, 1984, 1149 p., 1278 p., 1361 p.


 * Gustav Mahler


 * vol. 2: Vienna, The Years of Challenge (1897-1904)


 * vol. 3: Vienna: Triumph and Disillusion (1904-07)
 * vol. 4: A New Life Cut Short (1907-11)
 * Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1995, 2000, 2008,892 p., 1000 p., 1758 p.


 * Vienne, une histoire musicale


 * vol. 1: 1100-1848.
 * vol. 2: 1848 à nos jours.
 * Arles, Bernard Coutaz, 1990 & 1991, 261 p.,261 p.


 * Vienne, une histoire musicale, Paris, Fayard, 1995, 417 p. (translated into German and Spanish
 * Mahler: A la recherche de l'infini perdu, translated into Japanese by Takashi Funayama, Soshiba, Tokyo, 1993, 277 p.
 * Ein Glück ohne Ruh' – Die Briefe Gustav Mahlers an Alma, Erste Gesamtausgabe, ed. mit Günther Weiß, Berlin, Siedler Verlag, 1995, 575 p.
 * Op Zook nar Gustav Mahler, [researching Gustav Mahler], translated by Ernst van Altena, Landsmeer, Meulenhoff, Amsterdam, 1995, 127 p.
 * Gustav Mahler: Letters to his Wife, ed. Henry-Louis de La Grange, Güther Weiß, Knud Martner, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 2004, 431 p.

Other Publications:

A collection of his articles and lectures was published in Japanese in 1992 by ARC (Tokyo), Japan.

For ten years (1986-1995) he reviewed new Mahler recordings for the French magazine Diapason and also wrote occasionally for Le Monde, L'Evénement du Jeudi, Le Monde de la Musique, Opus Magazine (New-York), Scherzo (Madrid), Amadeus (Milano) and Le Nouvel Observateur.

Program notes for the Orchestre de Paris about all of Mahler's orchestral works (1971-88).

Liner notes of LPs and CDs for numerous recordings of Mahler, as well as other composers ranging from Brahms to Tchaikovsky. Numerous contributions to scholarly publications.

A collection of Mahler essays by distinguished scholars was published in 1997 as a Festschrift in honor of Henry-Louis de La Grange's seventieth birthday.

References:


 * Neue Mahlerina, Essays in Honour of Henry-Louis de La Grange on His Seventieth Birthday. Günther Weiß, ed., Berne – Berlin – Frankfurt/M. - New York – Paris – Vienna. Lang, 1997, 447 p. ISBN 3-906756-95-5. Contains a chronology of de La Grange's life until 1994
 * http://www.carnegiehall.org/textSite/box_office/events/evt_12751.html
 * http://www.scribd.com/doc/7167221/Mahler-Symphonies-Notes-HenryLouis-de-La-Grange
 * http://www.bibliomonde.com/auteur/henry-louis-la-grange-370.html
 * http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/news/04-2010/tony-kushner-to-deliver-julliard-commencement-addr_27062.html
 * http://www.librarything.com/author/grangehenrylouisdela
 * http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P2-6983778.html
 * http://www.scena.org/columns/lebrecht/080305-NL-Mahler.html
 * http://web2.radio-france.fr/francemusique/em/magazine/emission.php?e_id=65000065&d_id=395000218&arch=1
 * http://www.carnegiehall.org/article/box_office/events/evt_12751.html?selecteddate=05022009
 * http://www.whoswho.fr/en/biographie-henry-louis-de-la-grange_433895.html
 * http://www.welt.de/print-welt/article619294/Wie_ein_Genie_funktioniert.html
 * http://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/22/arts/critic-s-notebook-mahler-goes-on-trial-genius-or-fraud-or-both.html
 * http://www.mediathequemahler.org/
 * http://www.mediathequemahler.org/mmm/association/de_la_grange

SW (talk) 22:48, 16 August 2010 (UTC)