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Peggy Winsome Glanville-Hicks (* 29. Dezember 1912 in Melbourne; † 25. Juni 1990 in Darlinghurst, Sydney) war eine australische Komponistin.

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Nach Kompositionsstudien beim Dirigenten des Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Fritz Hart wechselte Glanville-Hicks ans Royal College of Music in London, wo sie Komposition bei Ralph Vaughan Williams, Klavier bei Arthur Benjamin und Dirigieren bei Malcolm Sargent studierte. 1936/37 ergänzte sie ihre Ausbildung bei Nadia Boulanger in Paris und bei Egon Wellesz in Wien. 1941 übersiedelte sie in die USA, wo sie als Musikkritikerin, Generalsekretärin und – von 1950 bis 1960 – Direktorin des Composer´s Forum der Columbia University wirkte. Außerdem war sie Mitglied des Sekretariats des International Music Fund der UNESCO. 1975/76 kehrte sie nach Australien zurück.

Glanville-Hicks komponierte fünf Opern und acht Ballette, eine Sinfonie, eine Sinfonietta, ein Flöten-, ein Bratschen- und ein Klavierkonzert, zahlreiche kammermusikalische Werke, Chormusik, Lieder, Liederzyklen und Filmmusiken.
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Peggy Winsome Glanville-Hicks (* 29 December 1912 in Melbourne; † 25 June 1990 in Darlinghurst, Sydney) was an Australian composer.

Life

Peggy Glanville Hicks, born in Melbourne, first studied composition with Fritz Hart at the Albert Street Conservatorium in Melbourne. There she also studied the piano under Waldemar Seidel. She spent the years from 1932 to 1936 as a student at the Royal College of Music in London, where she studied piano with Arthur Benjamin, conducting with Constant Lambert and Malcolm Sargent, and composition with Ralph Vaughan Williams. (She later asserted that the idea that opens Vaughan Williams’ 4th Symphony was taken from her Sinfonietta for Small Orchestra (1935), and it reappears in her 1953 opera The Transposed Heads). Her teachers also included Egon Wellesz, in Vienna, and Nadia Boulanger, in Paris.

She was the first Australian composer whose work, her Choral Suite, was performed at an International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) Festival (1938).

From 1949 to 1955 she served as a critic for the New York Herald Tribune, succeeding Paul Bowles, working under Virgil Thomson. At the same time she continued composing and was musical director at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. She was granted U.S. citizenship in 1949. After leaving America, she lived in Greece from 1957 to 1975. In the United States she asked George Antheil to revise his Ballet Mécanique for a modern percussion ensemble for a concert she helped to organize. In 1966, after years of failing eyesight, she was diagnosed with a brain tumour, which was surgically removed, and she regained her sight. However, a result of this operation was her loss of a sense of smell.

She died in Sydney in 1990. She had returned to Australia at the encouragement of James Murdoch and others. Murdoch also wrote her biography. Her will established the Peggy Glanville-Hicks Composers’ House in her home in Paddington, Sydney, as a residency for Australian and overseas composers. The organisation New Music Network established the Peggy Glanville-Hicks Address in her honour in 1999.
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