Peter Branscombe
Peter John Branscombe (7 December 1929 in
musicologist
, and a writer on Austrian cultural history.
Career
Branscombe attended Dulwich College where he showed talent as cricket player. Having served his military service in Vienna, Austria, he studied literature at Worcester College, Oxford.[1] There, he became acquainted with notable Austrian émigrés such as the composer Egon Wellesz and the musicologist Otto Erich Deutsch.
In 1959 Branscombe joined the
German Studies
, a post he kept until the end of his life. In 1979, he founded St Andrews' Institute for Austrian Studies, the only such research facility in the United Kingdom.
His interests included the popular theatre of the
The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and the Wagner-Handbuch (Wagner Handbook) where he researched many forgotten composers of the 19th century. Branscombe also translated poems by Heinrich Heine
and academic texts.
Between 1996 and 2001, Branscombe edited six Possen for the historical-critical edition of Nestroy's complete works.
He was married to German studies academic Marina Branscombe and they had three children.
Selected works
- Unpublished dissertation in two volumes: The connexions between drama and music in the Viennese popular theatre from the opening of the Wiener Stadtbibliothek
- Heinrich Heine – Selected Verse by Heine. Translated by Peter Branscombe. Penguin Books. 1967/1968.
- Austrian Life and Literature, 1780–1938. Eight essays. Scottish Academic Press 1978.
- Schubert Studies. Problems of Style and Chronology. (with ISBN 978-0-521-22606-6
- W. A. Mozart: ISBN 978-0-521-31916-4
- Numerous contributions and reviews in: Forum for Modern Language Studies, Austrian Studies, Nestroyana
References
- ^ "Professor Peter Branscombe – obituary". The Herald. Glasgow. 4 February 2009. Retrieved 28 December 2011.
External links
- Translated Penguin Book - at Penguin First Editions reference site of early first edition Penguin Books.
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