Fritz Hart: An English Musical Romantic at the Ends of Empire (as a downloadable pdf)
A long-overdue biographical study, by Peter Tregear and Anne-Marie Forbes, of Fritz Hart (1874-1949), one of the more astonishing figures of the so-called English Musical Renaissance
Lyrebird Press, The University of Melbourne (xvii, 233 p)
Image 1: Max Meldrum, Portrait of Fritz Hart, c. 1925. Oil on canvas. 62.0 (h) × 52.0 (w) cm National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
Image 2: Fritz Hart, c. 1940. Fritz Hart Collection, APAC.


Fritz Bennicke Hart (1874–1949) stands as one of the more astonishing figures of the so-called English Musical Renaissance. This long-overdue biographical study explores and assesses the substantial and lasting contributions he made to the musical life of England, Australia and Hawai’i. As Tregear and Forbes have richly documented, Hart was a charismatic, and extraordinarily productive, composer, conductor, educator and institutional leader whose life-journey in music throws new light on the aesthetic concerns of early twentieth-century imperial Britain and how they were received and refracted at that empire’s farthest extent.
Peter Tregear (University of Melbourne and University of Adelaide) is the author of Ernst Krenek and the Politics of Musical Style (Scarecrow, 2013) and Enlightenment or Entitlement: Rethinking Tertiary Music Education (Currency House, 2014).
Anne-Marie Forbes (University of Tasmania) co-edited Joseph Holbrooke: Composer, Critic and Musical Patriot (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014) with Paul Watt, and Heart’s Ease: Spirituality in the Music of John Tavener (Peter Lang, 2020) with June Boyce-Tillman.
“Fritz Hart offers a vital and pressing opportunity to reflect critically on British music’s complex and entangled relationship with modernity, globalism and empire. In their scrupulous and finely-tuned volume, Tregear and Forbes provide a foundational text for framing Hart’s richly diverse life and work as teacher, mentor, administrator and creative artist”. —Professor Daniel Grimley, University of Oxford
This product (AMR021E) is a downloadable pdf (ISBN: 978 0 7340 3804 3). A paperback version (AMR021) is also available ISBN: 978 0 7340 3803 6 (paperback). Publication date: December 2024
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