Richard Meale

Richard Meale

Richard Meale (born 24 August 1932) is one of Australia's leading composers.

Meale was born in Sydney and studied piano with Winifred Burston at the NSW State Conservatorium of Music, as well as clarinet, harp, history and theory, before studying at the University of California, Los Angeles and other American institutions.

Initially firmly part of the avant garde amongst Australian composers, Meale experienced a stylistic rethink in the 1970s, abandoning an exclusively atonal approach in his orchestral work "Viridian" (1979) and his 2nd String Quartet (1980) for a polytonal approach, and in later works embracing a frank tonality, with fin-de-siecle overtones, whilst retaining an individual voice.

He is best known for the 1986 opera "Voss", with libretto by David Malouf based on the novel of the same title by Patrick White. Malouf also collaborated with Meale on his second operatic project, "Mer de glace" (1986–91), a tableaux-like juxtaposition of some ideas of the novel "Frankenstein" alongside the real dealings of Mary Shelley with Shelley and Byron.

From 1969 to 1988 he was part of the music faculty of the University of Adelaide, South Australia

In 2000, Meale was conferred Doctor of Letters "honoris causa" by the University of New England.

Bibliography

* "Richard Meale - Abandoning Tonality" [radio transcript] . 2008. In "Talking to Kinky and Karlheinz - 170 musicians get vocal on The Music Show" ed. Anni Heino, 263-268. Sydney: ABC Books. ISBN 9780733320088.

External links

* [http://www.anu.edu.au/cabs/hdc/meale.pdf Canberra School of Music Citation for an Honorary Degree]
* [http://www.amcoz.com.au/composers/composer.asp?id=449 Richard Meale biography at the Australian Music Centre]


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