Elizabeth Norman McKay
English musicologist, pianist and Lieder accompanist
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Born | 1931 London, England |
Died | 20 May 2018(2018-05-20) (aged 86–87) |
Occupation | Musicologist |
Education | Bristol University PhD University of Oxford (Somerville College) |
Subject | Music |
Notable works | Franz Schubert's music for the theatre, Franz Schubert : a biography |
Elizabeth Norman McKay (née Norman) (1931 – 20 May 2018) was an English musicologist, pianist and Lieder accompanist.[1][2]
McKay graduated from Lawnswood High School in Leeds in 1947/48.[3]
She gained a degree in Physics from Bristol University, and worked in London as a pianist, accompanist, and repetiteur. In 1962 she was awarded a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford (where she studied at Somerville College) for her thesis on Schubert's music for the theatre.
She was formerly Tutor in Piano and Visiting Professor at the Birmingham Conservatoire.
Her publications include three books on Franz Schubert, and many contributions to symposia and dictionaries.
Selected bibliography
- 1962 The stage-works of Schubert, considered in the framework of Austrian Biedermeier society
- 1991 Franz Schubert's music for the theatre
- 1987 The impact of the new pianofortes on classical keyboard style : Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert
- 1996 / 2001 Franz Schubert : a biography
- 1998 The Oxford Bicentenary Symposium 1997 : Bericht - The Biedermeier and Beyond (1997)
- 1998 Schubert's string and piano duos in context
- 2003 Schubert and the theatre
- 2009 Schubert : the piano and dark keys
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External links
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- Lawnswood High School Elizabeth Norman McKay
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- Schubertiade
- Das Dreimäderlhaus (1916 operetta)
- Schubert at the Piano (1899 painting)
- 1928 International Columbia Graphophone Competition
- Schubert's Dream of Spring (1931 film)
- Gently My Songs Entreat (1933 film)
- Serenade (1940 film)
- The Great Awakening (1941 film)
- It's Only Love (1947 film)
- La Belle Meunière (1949 film)
- Franz Schubert (1953 film)
- Angeli senza paradiso (1970 film)
- Eva Badura-Skoda
- Otto Erich Deutsch
- Walther Dürr
- Julius Epstein
- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
- Max Friedlaender
- Johann Nepomuk Fuchs
- Therese Grob
- Ernst Hilmar
- Anselm Hüttenbrenner
- Eusebius Mandyczewski
- Johann Mayrhofer
- Elizabeth Norman McKay
- Gustav Nottebohm
- Wilhelm Müller
- Johann Philipp Neumann
- Brian Newbould
- Antonio Salieri
- Franz von Schober
- Ferdinand Schubert
- Johann Senn
- Joseph von Spaun
- Rita Steblin
- Johann Michael Vogl
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