Rondo for Piano Duet in A major, D951

Guy Dagul, already established as one of the UK's most sought-after composers of music for TV and Film, with successes in Hollywood, Channel Four (The Investigators), BBC (notably his score for the docu-soap Paddington Green, screened June 1999) and Carlton's Return to the Wild, has now composed his first serious concert piece.2 This is a Grand Fantasia for piano duet and strings, dedicated to his parents, the world-renowned Piano Duo of Harvey Dagul and Isabel Beyer. It was given its world premiere by them on the occasion of their Golden Wedding Anniversary Concert on 30 January in St Saviour's Church, St Albans before a packed audience.

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Improvviso, Piano Duet, 1979

Notes ◽

10.2307/939300 ◽

1982 ◽

Vol 39 (1) ◽

pp. 219

Author(s):

Albert Seay ◽

Vittorio Rieti ◽

Lukas Haug ◽

Lazar Nikolov

Keyword(s):

Piano Duet

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Piano duet

10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.21629 ◽

2001 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Frank Dawes

Keyword(s):

Piano Duet

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COMPOSER IN INTERVIEW: DAVID MATTHEWS

Tempo ◽

10.1017/s0040298203000019 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 57 (223) ◽

pp. 2-14

Author(s):

Mark Doran

Keyword(s):

String Quartet ◽

Full Scale ◽

Benjamin Britten ◽

Honorary Doctorate ◽

Piano Duet ◽

The University

David Matthews was born in Walthamstow, London, in 1943. He began composing – with an attempt at a full-scale symphony – at the age of 16 but, being self-taught and formally unqualified in music, went to study classics at Nottingham University (1962–65; the university awarded him an Honorary Doctorate in Music in 1997). Starting in the early 1960s he was one of the musicians (along with his composer brother Colin and the composer and conductor Berthold Goldschmidt) who assisted Deryck Cooke in the preparation of what became Cooke's famous ‘Performing Version’ of the draft of Mahler's Tenth Symphony. Between 1966 and 1969 Matthews took lessons from Anthony Milner. During this period he was also working at Aldeburgh as an assistant to Benjamin Britten (1966–70); a few years later, it was to be in an improvised piano-duet version played by David and Colin Matthews that the partly paralysed Britten first heard his own Third String Quartet (1975).

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