Albert Coates
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- Born
- 1882 · Saint Petersburg.
- Died
- 1953 · Cape Town.
- Nationality
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland · Russian Empire
- Occupation
- conductor · composer
- Fields
- classical · opera
- Education
- University of Music and Theatre Leipzig
- Teachers
- Arthur Nikisch
- Languages
- English
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Albert Coates studied at University of Music and Theatre Leipzig. Training under Arthur Nikisch is recorded. The recorded working language is English. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are classical and opera. Places of work recorded in the authority are England.
Coates Abstract/medium: 1 negative: glass; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
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- 2.Holden, Raymond, "Coates, Albert Henry (1882–1953)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 27 February 2011
- 3.Kennedy, Michael, "Coates, Albert," Grove Music Online, Oxford Music Online, accessed 27 February 2011
- 4.Liner notes to EMI CD CZS 5 75486 2 (Albert Coates: Great Conductors of the Twentieth Century series), EMI 2002
- 5.University of Music and Theatre Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Leipzig, archive, A, I.1, 7943 (study documents)
- 6."Music", The Times, 27 May 1910, p. 10
- 7.Obituary, The Times, 12 December 1953, p. 9
- 8."Tristan und Isolde", The Times 20 February 1914, p. 8
- 9."Die Meistersinger", The Times, 23 February 1914, p. 10
- 10."Manon Lescaut at Covent Garden", The Times, 25 April 1914, p. 6
- 11."Parsifal at Covent Garden", The Times, 24 April 1914, p. 7
- 12."Albert Coates", Naxos Records, accessed 27 February 2011
- 13."The Conductor's Art", The Times, 30 April 1919, p. 15
- 14."Mr. Albert Coates's New Post", The Times, 18 September 1919, p. 8
- 15.Lloyd-Webber, Julian, "How I fell in love with E E's darling", The Daily Telegraph, 17 May 2007; and Anderson, Keith, Liner notes to Naxos CD 8.550503, Dvořák and Elgar Cello Concertos (1992), p. 4
- 16.Newman, Ernest. "Music of the Week", The Observer, 2 November 1919
- 17.Moore, p. 347; and "Heifetz in Elgar's Concerto", The Times, 26 November 1920, p. 10
- 18."This Week's Music", The Times, 6 December 1920, p. 10
- 19."Royal Philharmonic Society, Delius's Requiem", The Times, 24 March 1922, p. 10; and "The New 'Requiem' by Frederic [sic] Delius", The Manchester Guardian, 23 March 1922, p. 8.
- 20."Two Choral Composers – Holst and Vaughan Williams", The Times, 17 October 1925, p. 10
- 21.Kennedy, pp. 66–67
- 22.Eaton, Quaintance, "Advance Guard", Opera News, 27 February 1971, pp. 28–30
- 23."Mr. Albert Coates", The Times, 13 April 1925, p. 9
- 24."Opera in English – New Company for Covent Garden", The Times, 18 July 1936, p. 10
- 25.The Serf. 790. 54. 18 November 1938.
- 26."Mr. A. Coates's New Opera", The Times, 23 October 1920, p. 6
- 27."Albert Coates as composer", The Guardian, 2 July 1959, p. 5
- 28.Vladimir Horowitz: Recordings 1930-1951, Warner Classics, 2014.
- 29.'Albert Coates conducts 20th Century music', Pristine Audio PASC768 (2026)
- 30.Brook, Donald. Conductors Gallery - Biography. Stellenbosch University Library Archives. 1947.
- 31.de Jongh, Santie. Biographical History. domus.ac.za. 7 August 2007.
- 32.Book Review: "Master Lovers" -- An Inventive and Intelligent Fictional Memoir - The Arts Fuse. artsfuse.org. 2024-04-15.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 6
- Kennedy, Michael. Adrian Boult. Hamish Hamilton. 1987. 0-333-48752-4.
- Moore, Jerrold Northrop. Edward Elgar – Letters of a Lifetime. Clarendon Press. 1990. 0193154722.
- Brown, Jonathan (2012)."Albert Coates: Bacchus in Valhalla," Chapter 9 of Great Wagner Conductors: a listener's companion (Parrot Press, 2012), 218-242 (text, with illus.), 632-654 (discog.).
- Buesst, Aylmer (1954). "Albert Coates: 1882–1953," Music & Letters, Vol. 35, 136–139.
- Gross, Dr. Felix (1947). "Albert Coates," Spotlight (Capetown), Vol. 2, 17 October 1947, 41-54.
- Robinson, Stanford, and Christopher Dyment (1975). "Albert Coates", consisting of tribute and biography by S. Robinson, with immediately ensuing discography by C. Dyment, Recorded Sound, the Journal of the British Institute of Recorded Sound, no. 57/58 (January–April 1975), p. 382–386 (biog.), 386–405 (discog.).
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