Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 1770 26 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist.Beethoven remains one of the most admired composers in the history of Western music; his works rank amongst the most performed of the classical music repertoire and span the transition from the Classical period to the Romantic era in classical music. [64] "Baba O'Riley" in particular was written as Townshend's ode to his two heroes at the time, Meher Baba and composer Terry Riley. [149], In 1989, Townshend gave the initial funding to allow the formation of the non-profit hearing advocacy group H.E.A.R. [citation needed], In 1984 Townshend contributed lyrics to the track "I'm the Answer" on his brother Simon's debut solo album Sweet Sound which was released as a single and features Townshend and Simon on an interview that wrongly names that the track was by "Peter Townshend". [40], With the assistance of Lambert, the Who caught the ear of American record producer Shel Talmy, who had the band signed to a record contract. Townshend was featured in ARP promotional materials in the early 1970s.[130]. [67] It was released in November, and became their highest charting cross-Atlantic success, reaching No. [16] At Acton County, he was frequently bullied because he had a large nose, an experience that profoundly affected him. In 1968 Townshend helped assemble a band called Thunderclap Newman consisting of three musicians he knew. [75] After a 1976 tour, Townshend took a year-long break from the band to focus on spending time with his family.[76]. (Dmitri Schostakowitsch). 4 in the charts upon its release in December 1966. [27], In late 1961, Entwistle joined the Detours, a skiffle/rock and roll band, led by Roger Daltrey. In Love With Meher Baba described Townshend's spiritual leanings. Townshend figured prominently in the development of what is widely known in rock circles as the "Marshall stack". [135], Townshend met Karen Astley, daughter of film composer Edwin Astley, while in art school. (See also heterophony.) [156], On 4 November 2011, Roger Daltrey and Townshend launched the Daltrey/Townshend Teen and Young Adult Cancer Program at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, to be funded by the Who's charity Who Cares. Townshend has been an active champion of children's charities. Townshend has written several scripts spanning the breadth of his career, including numerous drafts of his elusive Lifehouse project, the last of which, co-written with radio playwright Jeff Young, was published in 1999. In July 1976, Townshend opened Meher Baba Oceanic, a London activity centre for Baba followers, which featured film dubbing and editing facilities, a cinema and a recording studio. Townshend has also contributed to and authored many newspaper and magazine articles, book reviews, essays, books, and scripts, and he has collaborated as a lyricist and composer for many other musical acts. [6] He and Roger Daltrey received The George and Ira Gershwin Award for Lifetime Musical Achievement at UCLA on 21 May 2016. In the early days with the Who, Townshend played an Emile Grimshaw SS De Luxe and 6-string and 12-string Rickenbacker semi-hollow electric guitars primarily (particularly the Rose-Morris UK-imported models with special f-holes). In the late 1960s, Townshend began playing Gibson SG Special models almost exclusively. These instruments include a few vintage and reissue Rickenbackers, the Gretsch 6120, an original 1952 Fender Telecaster,[127] Gibson Custom Shop's artist limited edition reissues of Townshend's Les Paul DeLuxe models 1, 3 and 9 as well his signature SG Special reissue. Further examples of Townshend's drug rehabilitation activism took place in the form of a 1984 benefit concert (incidentally the first live performance of Manchester band the Stone Roses), an article he wrote a few days later for Britain's Mail on Sunday urging better care for the nation's growing number of drug addicts, and the formation of a charitable organisation, Double-O Charities, to raise funds for the causes he'd recently championed. The Twelve Grand Concertos, Op. So when it goes to playing something fast I go to the synth. DSCH is a musical motif used by the composer Dmitri Shostakovich to represent himself. In March 2011, Roger Daltrey said in an interview with the BBC that Townshend had recently experienced gradual but severe hearing loss and was now trying to save what remained of his hearing: "Pete's having terrible trouble with his hearing. According to Townshend, postwar trauma was the driving force behind the rock music revolution in the UK. As a result, Townshend, with Entwistle's encouragement, became the sole guitarist. [117] On the Who's The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour appearance in 1967, Townshend used a Vox Cheetah guitar,[118] which he only used for that performance; the guitar was destroyed by Townshend and Moon's drum explosion. Townshend published a semi-autobiographical story The Boy Who Heard Music as a serial on a blog beginning in September 2005. 6, HWV 319330, by George Frideric Handel are concerti grossi for a concertino trio of two violins and cello and a ripieno four-part string orchestra with harpsichord continuo.First published by subscription in London by John Walsh in 1739, they became in a second edition two years later Handel's Opus 6. Also in 1977, Townshend founded Eel Pie Publishing, which specialised in children's titles, music books, and several Meher Baba-related publications. Townshend also embarked on a project dedicated to the collection, restoration and maintenance of Meher Baba-related films. Townshend wrote a song, "I Can't Explain", as a deliberate sound-alike of the Kinks, another group Talmy produced. [24] Lacking the requisite grades to attend university, Pete was faced with the decision of art school, music school, or getting a job. The SG was clearly marked as a Pete Townshend limited edition model and came with a special case and certificate of authenticity, signed by Townshend himself. [26] Townshend dropped out in 1964 to focus on music full-time. [57] He began to develop a musical piece about a deaf, dumb, and blind boy who would experience sensations musically. Townshend has also recorded several concert albums, including one featuring a supergroup he assembled called Deep End, with David Gilmour on guitar, who performed just three concerts and a television show session for The Tube, to raise money for his Double-O charity, supporting drug addicts. [108], In 1967 Townshend had begun to explore spirituality. Due to his aggressive playing style and innovative songwriting techniques, Townshend's works with the Who and in other projects have earned him critical acclaim. He told Rolling Stone, "If my hearing is going to be a problem, we're not delaying shows. "[109] Townshend notes that growing up in this period produced the narrative that runs through his music of a boy lost in the stresses and pressures of postwar life. [33] The Detours became aware of a group of the same name in February 1964, forcing them to change their name. Several of Townshend's essays have been posted online, including "Meher BabaThe Silent Master: My Own Silence" in 2001, and "A Different Bomb", an indictment of the child pornography industry, the following year. The same computer systems work wonderfully well on stage, proving to be perfect for me when the Who performed at the Super Bowl and doing Quadrophenia for TCT at the Royal Albert Hall in 2010. [132], On 5 March 2019, Townshend announced that his debut novel, titled The Age of Anxiety, would be published on 5 November 2019 by Hodder & Stoughton imprint Coronet. The three central figures of musical expressionism are Arnold Schoenberg (18741951) and his pupils, Anton Webern (18831945) and Alban Berg (18851935), the so-called Second Viennese School.Other composers that have been associated with expressionism are Ernst Krenek (19001991) (the Second Symphony, 1922), Paul Hindemith (18951963) In support of Tommy, the Who launched a tour that included a memorable appearance at the Woodstock Festival on 17 August. Johannes Brahms (German: [johans bams]; 7 May 1833 3 April 1897) was a German composer, pianist, and conductor of the mid-Romantic period.Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, he spent much of his professional life in Vienna.He is sometimes grouped with Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven as one of the "Three Bs" of music, a comment Two years after joining Faber and Faber, Townshend decided to publish a book of his own. [143] Townshend also stated that he once felt sexually attracted to the Rolling Stones lead singer, Mick Jagger. [56], By 1968, Townshend became interested in the teachings of Meher Baba. Released as a single in January 1965, "I Can't Explain" was the Who's first hit, reaching number eight on the British charts. A production described as a Townshend rock opera and titled The Boy Who Heard Music debuted as part of Vassar College's Powerhouse Summer Theater program in July 2007. [48] In their stage shows, Townshend developed a guitar stunt in which he would swing his right arm against the guitar strings in a style reminiscent of the vanes of a windmill. [38] In June 1964, during a performance at the Railway Tavern, Townshend accidentally broke the top of his guitar on the low ceiling and proceeded to destroy the entire instrument. [32] In 1963, Townshend's father arranged an amateur recording of "It Was You", the first song his son ever wrote. [131] The book ranked in the top 5 of The New York Times best seller list in October 2012. Many studio recordings also feature Townshend on piano or keyboards, though keyboard-heavy tracks increasingly featured guest artists in the studio, such as Nicky Hopkins, John Bundrick, or Chris Stainton.[81]. Townshend has woven a long history of involvement with various charities and other philanthropic efforts throughout his career, both as a solo artist and with the Who. He posted a chapter each week until it was completed, and novella was available to read at his website for several months. [134], In interviews Townshend was more open about his beliefs, penning an article on Baba for Rolling Stone magazine in 1970 and stating that following Baba's teachings, he was opposed to the use of all psychedelic drugs, making him one of the first rock stars with counterculture credibility to turn against their use. Horse's Neck, issued in May 1985, was a collection of short stories he'd written between 1979 and 1984, tackling subjects such as childhood, stardom and spirituality. Barnes, Richard. Among his creations is the rock opera Quadrophenia. [75] The album spawned one hit single, "Squeeze Box", that was written after Townshend learned how to play the accordion. The ORK (original smaller) keyboard of which is on display in his company's head office alongside a pink Vespa scooter. [151] He refused to let Michael Moore use "Won't Get Fooled Again" in Fahrenheit 9/11, saying that he watched Bowling for Columbine and was not convinced. He's overrated in England, but at the same time you find a lot of people like Jeff Beck and Hendrix getting credit for things he started. "[60], In 1970, the Who released Live at Leeds, which several music critics cite as the best live album of all time. The new bass player then suggested Townshend join as an additional guitarist. The Who were renowned as a very loud band in their live performances; some particular incidents include a Who concert at the Charlton Athletic Football Club, London, on 31 May 1976 that was listed as the "Loudest Concert Ever" by the Guinness Book of Records, where the volume level was measured at 126 decibels 32 metres from the stage. Townshend promptly knocked him offstage with his guitar, shouting, "Fuck off my fucking stage! for a single work, or "Opp." In response to bootlegging of these, he compiled his personal highlights (and "Evolution", a collaboration with Ronnie Lane), and released his first major-label solo title, 1972's Who Came First. Townshend also personally sold fund-raising anti-heroin T-shirts at a series of UK Bruce Springsteen concerts and reportedly financed a trip for former Clash drummer Topper Headon to undergo drug rehabilitation treatment. [36] The band was soon taken on by a mod publicist named Peter Meaden who convinced them to change their name to the High Numbers to give the band more of a mod feel. At about this time, Townshend, who had been searching the past two years for a basis for a rock opera, created a story inspired by the teachings of Baba and other writings and expressing the enlightenment he believed that he had received from them, which ultimately became Tommy. The self-confessed 'mean sonofabitch' was a gun-toting, fire-starting ball of trouble. The third article, "The Punk Meets the Godmother", appeared in November 1977. McAnuff and Townshend later co-produced the animated film The Iron Giant, also based on the Hughes story. [87], Townshend made several solo appearances during the 1970s, two of which were captured on record: Eric Clapton's Rainbow Concert[88] in January 1973 (which Townshend organized to revive Clapton's career after the latter's heroin addiction),[89] and the Paul McCartney-sponsored Concerts for the People of Kampuchea in December 1979. [51] Townshend took to trashing his hotel suites, though not to the extent of his bandmate Moon. The tapes malfunctioned during a performance in Newcastle, prompting Townshend to drag soundman Bob Pridden onstage, scream at him and kick over all the amplifiers, partially destroying the malfunctioning tapes. [55] Despite the success of "I Can See for Miles", which reached No. [153], In a widely reported 2012 interview with ABC, Townshend described himself jokingly as being "a bit of a neocon" stating that, "I like the idea of America as the world's police force. Information You Provide. These include concept albums, the rock operas Tommy and Quadrophenia, plus popular rock radio staples such as Who's Next; as well as dozens more that appeared as non-album singles, bonus tracks on reissues, and tracks on rarities compilations such as Odds & Sods (1974). Pianist Andy Newman (an old art school friend), drummer John "Speedy" Keen (who had written "Armenia City in the Sky" for the Who to record for their 1967 album The Who Sell Out) and teenage guitarist Jimmy McCulloch (later to join Wings). [96] The blog closed in October 2006, as noted on Townshend's website. [59] The result was the rock opera Tommy, released on 23 May 1969 to critical and commercial success. He has also written more than 100 songs that have appeared on his solo albums, as well as radio jingles and television theme songs. I don't think anybody consciously nicked it from anybody else. Similarly, when Jimmy Page was asked about the development of guitar feedback, he said: I don't know who really did feedback first; it just sort of happened. It became a commercial smash, reaching number one in the UK, and spawned two successful hit singles, "Baba O'Riley" and "Won't Get Fooled Again", that featured pioneering use of the synthesizer. The commercially available video of the Kampuchea concert shows the two rock icons duelling and clowning[90] through Rockestra mega-band versions of "Lucille", "Let It Be", and "Rockestra Theme"; Townshend closes the proceedings with a characteristic split-legged leap.[91]. Catalogue Catalogue Series Series. They married on 20 May 1968 and moved into a three-bedroom townhouse in Twickenham in outer south-west London that overlooked the Thames. The first movement of the Symphony of Psalms is marked "Tempo = 92" and uses the text from Psalm 38, verses 13 and 14.This movement was finished on August 15, 1930, which is the feast of the In February 2006, a major world tour by the Who was announced to promote their first new album since 1982. We generally collect only Personal Information you voluntarily provide to us. The opening of his personal website and his commerce site Eelpie.com, both in 2000, gave Townshend another outlet for literary work. [11], Townshend says he did not have many friends growing up, so he spent much of his boyhood reading adventure novels like Gulliver's Travels and Treasure Island. (Eelpie.com was closed down in 2010.) [18] Though his father taught him a couple of chords, Townshend was largely self-taught on the instrument and never learned to read music. Between 1997 and 2002, Townshend played five benefit shows for Maryville Academy, raising at least $1,600,000. The earliest public example of Townshend's involvement with charitable causes was in 1968, when Townshend donated the use of his former Wardour Street apartment to the Meher Baba Association. Townshend also released several albums dedicated to his spiritual mentor Meher Baba, listed on the discography page. Martins. Use * as placeholder (e.g. [citation needed], In 2006 Townshend opened a website for implementation of The Lifehouse Method based on his 1971 Lifehouse concept. Charles-Louis-Eugne Koechlin (French: [al lwi n kekl]; 27 November 1867 31 December 1950), commonly known as Charles Koechlin, was a French composer, teacher and musicologist.He was a political radical all his life and a passionate enthusiast for such diverse things as medieval music, The Jungle Book of Rudyard Kipling, Johann Sebastian Bach, film 25 December 1871] 27 April [O.S. [23], Townshend's brothers Paul and Simon were born in 1957 and 1960, respectively. [148], Townshend suffers from partial deafness and tinnitus, likely the result of noise-induced hearing loss from his extensive exposure to loud music. The "large clinic" Townshend was referring to was a drug treatment facility in London that he and drug rehabilitation experimenter, Meg Patterson, had devised, but the plan failed to come to fruition. Although he left a relatively small oeuvre, he is remembered as one of the most important composers of the 20th century However, since 2006, he has only three Vibro-King stacks, one of which is a backup. He has also used Guild,[113] Takamine[114] and Gibson J-200 acoustic models, with the J-200 providing his signature recorded acoustic sound in such songs as "Pinball Wizard".[115]. While not a huge commercial success, noted music critic Timothy Duggan listed it as "Townshend's most honest and introspective work since Quadrophenia." Instead of throwing the smashed parts away, Townshend reassembled the pieces as a sculpture. 7 in the UK and 8 in the US. John Coolidge Adams (born February 15, 1947) is an American composer and conductor whose music is rooted in minimalism.Among the most regularly performed composers of contemporary classical music, he is particularly noted for his operas, which are often centered around recent historical events. Dubbed Lifehouse, it was designed to be a multi-media project that symbolised the relationship between a musician and his audience. [53] Released in December, their next album was The Who Sell Outa concept album based on pirate radio, which had been instrumental in raising the Who's popularity. Townshend performed at a 1995 benefit organised by Paul Simon at Madison Square Garden's Paramount Theatre for the Children's Health Fund. It is a musical cryptogram in the manner of the BACH motif, consisting of the notes D, E-flat, C, B natural, or in German musical notation D, Es, C, H (pronounced as "De-Es-Ce-Ha"), thus standing for the composer's initials in German transliteration: D. 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The debut of Townshend's stage version of Tommy took place at San Diego's La Jolla Playhouse in July 1992. As a result of his position with Faber and Faber, Townshend developed friendships with both Nobel prize-winning author of Lord of the Flies, Sir William Golding, and British Poet Laureate Ted Hughes. In Beethoven's "Waldstein" piano sonata, the main second-subject theme of the opening movement, which is in sonata form, is heard in the pianist's left hand, while the right hand plays a decorated version. Whereas the other players like Jeff Beck and myself were playing more single note things than chords. A further limited release, With Love, was released in 1976. He called the song a "coming out, an acknowledgment of the fact that I'd had a gay life, and that I understood what gay sex was about. By 1970 Gibson changed the design of the SG Special which Townshend had been using previously, and he began using other guitars. He also began experimenting with LSD, though stopped taking the drug after receiving a potent hit after the Monterey Pop Festival on 18 June. Townshend was ranked No. [97] In 2012, the Who announced they would tour the rock opera Quadrophenia. [29] Daltrey was considered the leader of the group and, according to Townshend, "ran things the way he wanted them. Townshend's acoustic performances of three of his songs ("Pinball Wizard", "Drowned", and "Won't Get Fooled Again") were subsequently cited as forerunners and inspiration for the "unplugged" phenomenon in the 1990s. In the score preface, Stravinsky stated a preference for children's voices for the upper two choral parts. Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend (/tanznd/; born 19 May 1945) is an English musician. [106] In a 2015 interview Townshend stated that the work was intended to be an art installation. As a member of the Who, Townshend has also performed a series of concerts, beginning in 2000 to benefit the Teenage Cancer Trust in the UK, which raised several million pounds. He's very good at his chord scene, too.[82]. [98], On 22 March 2018, Townshend stated that a new Who album should feature original songs by Roger Daltrey as well as him. [152] In 1961 while in art school, Townshend joined the Young Communist League and was a prominent figure in their 1966 "Trend" recruitment campaign. Cliff Townshend was often away from his family touring with his band while Betty carried on affairs with other men. Townshend began to feel alienated, and the project was abandoned after he suffered a nervous breakdown. On 25 February 2006, he announced the issue of a mini-opera inspired by the novella for June 2006. [37] The band anguished over a name that all felt represented the band best, and dropped the High Numbers name, reverting to the Who. The Marshall stack was born, and Townshend used these as well as Hiwatt stacks. "We advanced a new concept", he writes. "Trauma is passed from generation to generation", he said, "I've unwittingly inherited what my father experienced. One of the cabinets had half of the speaker baffle slanted upwards and Marshall made these two cabinets stackable. Townshend remained the primary songwriter and leader of the group, writing over 100 songs which appeared on the band's eleven studio albums. I'm 66, I don't have perfect hearing, and if I listen to loud music or go to gigs I do tend to get tinnitus". Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (25 September [O.S. Apart from opera, his oeuvre includes orchestral, concertante, vocal, choral, and it is also found in his early Sonata for viola solo, Op. In 1969 and 1972, Townshend produced two limited-release albums, Happy Birthday and I Am, for the London-based Baba association. [111], Although he grew up in a household with jazz musicians, Townshend absorbed many of his ideas about performance and rock music themes during art school. The show was earmarked as a benefit for the London-based Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Foundation, an organisation which helps children with autism and intellectual disability. 3 Pieces for Clarinet and Piano, Op.12 (Fairchild, Blair) 3 Romances, Op. 47 (1949) Keyboard. [17] His grandmother Emma purchased his first guitar for Christmas in 1956, an inexpensive Spanish model. It has been used widely since the middle of the 18th century (the early Classical period).. He was ranked No. Townshend took to trashing his hotel suites, though not to the extent of his bandmate Moon. His bourgeois family did not approve of a musical career for him, and he studied law in Paris and then worked as a civil servant until the age of thirty-nine while immersing himself in the modernist artistic life of the French capital and composing The nominations were revealed via a virtual livestream on November 23, 2021. [103] On 24 January 2012 Townshend sold the rights to all of his back catalog and much of his future work including Floss The Musical if it is ever completed. Taking the older concerto da Through Townshend's mother, the group obtained a management contract with local promoter Robert Druce,[31] who started booking the band as a support act for bands including Screaming Lord Sutch, Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers, Shane Fenton and the Fentones, and Johnny Kidd and the Pirates. Townshend commissioned Dave Rimmer's Like Punk Never Happened, and was commissioning editor for radical playwright Steven Berkoff. 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