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Gerard Hoffnung Gerard Hoffnung Gerard Hoffnung est un musicien et dessinateur allemand, né le 22 mars 1925 à Berlin et mort le 25 septembre 1959 à Londres. Tubiste de formation, il est surtout connu pour ses œuvres humoristiques et ses caricatures. Gerard Hoffnung Sommaire 1 Biographie Naissance 22 mars 1925 2 Œuvres musicales Berlin 3 Bibliographie Décès 28 septembre 1959 (à 4 Discographie 34 ans) 5 Liens externes Londres 6 Source 7 Notes et références Nationalité Allemand Activités Caricaturiste, écrivain Formation Highgate School Biographie Né à Berlin dans une famille juive aisée, il quitte l'Allemagne avec ses parents en 1939 pour Londres. Il y suit les cours de la Highgate School pendant que son père part s'occuper d'affaires bancaires en Palestine (cette séparation temporaire deviendra finalement définitive du fait de la Seconde Guerre mondiale). Non mobilisable en raison de ses origines germaniques, il est employé dans une laiterie avant de devenir professeur de dessin à la Stamford School en 1945. Il commence à publier des caricatures dans différents journaux et écrit des chroniques radiophoniques pour l'émission dominicale, One Minute Please. Il épouse en 1952 Annetta Bennett, qui veillera à la promotion de l'œuvre de son époux après sa mort prématurée. Hoffnung meurt en effet d'une hémorragie cérébrale en 1959 à 34 ans, après avoir occupé deux décennies à une quantité considérable d'activités comme - entre autres - celles de caricaturiste, tubiste, impresario, producteur de radio et conférencier, notamment pour les Oxford et Cambridge Union Societies. En tant que caricaturiste, il est l'auteur d'une série de recueils de dessins humoristiques se moquant gentiment des chefs d'orchestres et des instrumentistes. Certains 1 d'entre eux ont été adaptés en 1965 par les studios Halas and Batchelor sous la forme d'un court-métrage d'animation intitulé The Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra . Il reste toutefois plus connu pour ses deux séries de concerts musicaux « décalés » organisés au Royal Festival Hall de Londres en 1956 et 1958, auxquels ont participé des musiciens éminemment « sérieux ». Parmi les œuvres composées spécialement pour l'occasion, on trouve la Grande, Grande ouverture, op. 57, de 2 3 Malcolm Arnold pour 3 aspirateurs, 1 machine à cirer, 4 fusils et orchestre , dédiée au président américain Herbert Hoover , le Concerto popolare de Franz 4 5 Reizenstein , décrit comme le « concerto pour piano qui met un terme à tous les concertos pour pianos » , le Concerto pour tuyau d'arrosage et cordes, l'opéra Let's 6 Fake an Opera ou The Tales of Hoffnung ou encore un extrait de l'oratorio de William Walton, Belshazzar's Feast dirigé par le compositeur et constitué d'une seule 7 note : le mot « Slain ! » crié par le chœur. Une grande partie de l'humour d'Hoffnung repose en effet sur la durée des œuvres. Un exemple marquant est le 8 9 Bricklayer's Lament , interprété lors d'une conférence à l'Oxford Union en 1958 . Malgré ses racines d'Europe centrale, la vie d'Hoffnung était tout à fait conforme à la tradition d'excentricité britannique. Il affectait, consciemment ou non, l'allure d'un vieux maître de musique, un rôle peaufiné lorsqu'il enseignait à la Stamford School, où l'on se souvient encore de ses frasques. Sa voix avait la raucité que l'on associe à l'âge, son élocution était lente et hésitante à l'ancienne mode, à moins que ce ne soit en hommage au colonel Blimp. Ses excentricités étaient à ce point légendaires que les histoires à son sujet avaient beau paraître fantastiques, elles n'en demeuraient pas moins crédibles, personne n'étant en mesure d'en imaginer de telles. Par exemple, on rapporte qu'il avait la manie d'apprendre à siffler des symphonies entières, appelant ses amis chefs d'orchestre au téléphone pour se les remémorer. Décrivant son activité de caricaturiste, il semblait la considérer comme quelque chose d'incontrôlé, d'inconscient : 10 « Lorsque j'essaie de dessiner quelque chose, une chaise par exemple, cela a toujours une expressivité. Je ne peux rien y faire. » De fait, les objets inanimés qu'il dessine semblent acquérir une personnalité, aussi n'est-il pas étonnant qu'il se soit tourné vers la caricature et l'exagération surréaliste, comme dans le dessin du musicien dévoré par le Serpent qu'il cherche à jouer ou celui du chanteur dont les boutons de veste sont des boutons de commande fort, doux, tremolo, sanglot, etc. Le personnage public excentrique et spirituel ne doit cependant pas occulter un aspect plus réfléchi et sérieux. En 1955, il rejoint le mouvement Quaker et devient 11 visiteur des prisons. Plus encore, selon Joel Marks , la position d'Hoffnung sur « les questions raciales, l'homosexualité, le désarmement nucléaire, le mauvais traitement des animaux (en particulier la chasse) et, partant de là, la musique de Bartók et de Schönberg [était] généreuse et passionnée. » Il apprend à jouer du tuba, suffisamment bien pour jouer en concert le Concerto pour tuba en fa mineur de Vaughan Williams mais aussi pour devenir membre (et bouffon) de l'orchestre du Morley College, un ensemble amateur londonien fort respecté. La maison d'Hoffnung ressemble à une sorte de salon littéraire pour musiciens, artistes, écrivains et amis en général. Étant donné son goût pour le divertissement, il est surprenant qu'il ait trouvé le temps de réaliser autant de choses. Depuis un demi-siècle, son concept de concert a été perpétué par sa veuve Annetta et ses collaborateurs. Des centaines de concerts ont été ainsi organisés 12 principalement dans les pays anglophones mais aussi francophones comme à l'Opéra de Lausanne le 31 décembre 2005 . 13 Son fils, Ben Hoffnung, est timbalier des London Mozart Players Œuvres musicales Bibliographie Notices d'autorité : Fichier d’autorité international virtuel (http://viaf.org/viaf/7574215) • International Standard Name Identifier (http://isni.org/isni/0000000108675000) • Union List of Artist Names (https://www.getty.edu/vow/ULANFullDisplay?find=&role=&nation=&subjectid=500015583) • Bibliothèque nationale de France (http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb138952624) (données (http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb138952624)) • Système universitaire de documentation (http://www.idref.fr/095126929) • Bibliothèque du Congrès (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/n81089470) • Gemeinsame Normdatei (http://d-nb.info/gnd/118706012) • Id RKDartists (https://rkd.nl/nl/explore/artists/38966) • WorldCat (http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n81-089470) Recueils de dessins 1951 : The Right Playmate (texte de James Broughton) 1953 : The Maestro 1954 : Points for Parents (illustrations du livre de Lady Pakenham) 1955 : Bouverie Ballads (illustrations des poèmes de Percy Cudlip) ; The Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra ; The Isle of Cats (illustrations du livre de John Symond) 1956 : The Hoffnung Music Festival 1957 : The Hoffnung Companion to Music 1958 : Hoffnung's Musical Chairs 1959 : Ho Ho Hoffnung ; Hoffnung's Acoustics 1960 : O Rare Hoffnung ; Birds, Bees and Storks 1961 : Hoffnung's Little Ones 1962 : Hoffnung's Constant Readers 1963 : The Penguin Hoffnung 1968 : Hoffnung's Encore 1984 : Hoffnung's Humoresque Biographies Annetta Hoffnung, Gerard Hoffnung, his biography, Gordon Fraser, 1988. Joel Marks and David E.E. Sloane, « The Hoffnung Festschrift » in Essays in Arts and Sciences, Vol. XXI, octobre 1992. Repris dans Encyclopedia of British Humorists, Garland Publishing Company, 1996. Discographie 14 Hoffnung's Music Festivals, EMI CLASSICS CMS7 63302 2, 1994 — Concerts de 1956 et 1958 Hoffnung at Large (2 CD), BBC Audio, 2002 — Interviews, conférences et chroniques radiophoniques Hoffnung, a Last Encore (2 CD), BBC Radio Collection, 2002 — Interviews et conférences The Hoffnung Festival Of Music(2 CD), Decca, 2002 Hoffnung Festival 33 tours n° 1 Harmonia mundi HM 768 Hoffnung Festival 33 tours n° 2 Harmonia mundi HM 769 - les trois disques sous licence EMI-GB Hoffnung Festival 33 tours n° 3 Harmonia mundi HM 770 Liens externes Site officiel de Gerard Hoffnung (http://www.musicweb-international.com/hoffnung/index.htm) Notice biographique de Joel Marks (http://philosophicalpotpourri.blogspot.com/2006/01/gerard-hoffnung-biographical-sketch_26.html) Source (en) Cet article est partiellement ou en totalité issu de l’article de Wikipédia en anglais intitulé « Gerard Hoffnung (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Hoffnung?ol did=307365159) » (voir la liste des auteurs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Hoffnung?action=history)). Notes et références 1. (en) The Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra (http://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/55802-Hoffnung_Symphony_Orchestra.html) sur The Big Cartoon Database. 2. (en) Fiche technique (http://www.chesternovello.com/Default.aspx?TabId=2432&State_3041=2&workId_3041=7041) sur Chester Music. 3. (en) « Music: Op. I for Vacuum Cleaners » (http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,824825,00.html), Time Magazine, 22 avril 1957. 4. (en) Biographie (http://www.jmi.org.uk/suppressedmusic/composers.html) sur le site du Jewish Music Institute. 5. (en) Peter Schickele, « Wait Till You Hear Mozart on the Garden Hose » (http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50F14FD3E5D137A93C2A81788D85F4C8685F9), New York Times, 10 mars 1968 6. Signifiant littéralement « Contrefaisons un opéra », le titre est une référence parodique à Let's Make an Opera de Benjamin Britten 7. « Tué ! » 8. « La Lamentation du maçon » 9. Extrait sonore sur la Wikipédia anglophone 10. « I would try to draw something, a chair for instance, and there it would be - with an expression. I had almost nothing to do with it. » 11. « Gerard Hoffnung: A Biographical Sketch » (http://philosophicalpotpourri.blogspot.com/2006/01/gerard-hoffnung-biographical-sketch_26.html) 12. Site officiel de l'Opéra de Lausanne (http://www.opera-lausanne.ch/index.php?id=6&no_cache=1&tx_operaevents_pi1%5Bseason%5D=61&tx_operaevents_pi1%5Bmonth%5D=12&tx_o peraevents_pi1%5BshowUid%5D=13&cHash=2b87600696) 13. (en) Brève interview de Ben Hoffnung (http://www.lmp.org/LMPmore/Musicians/benhoffnung.htm) sur le site des London Mozart Players. 14.
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