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Professor Walsh was educated at Kingston Grammar School, St Paul’s School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. From 1963, he worked as a music journalist in London, at first freelance, writing for The Times, Daily Telegraph, and Financial Times, then from 1966 as deputy music critic of The Observer. He has broadcast regularly on musical topics for the BBC; a major feature of BBC Radio 3 programming in 1995 was his six two-hour broadcasts 'Conversations with Craft', in which he talked to Stravinsky's close associate, Robert Craft. Professor Walsh joined Cardiff University as a Senior Lecturer in Music in 1976, and now holds a personal chair in the School. He still contributes music criticism to The Independent and has since published a series of books and long papers on Bartok, Stravinsky, Kurtág and Panufnik, among others. The first volume of his major biography of Stravinsky — Stravinsky: A Creative Spring (Knopf, 1999) — won the Royal Philharmonic Society Prize for the best music book published in the UK in the year 2000. Volume Two — Stravinsky: The Second Exile (also Knopf) — was published in 2006.Cyhoeddiad
2013
- Walsh, S. 2013. Musorgsky and his circle. London: Faber & Faber.
- Walsh, S. 2013. Remembering 'The Rite of Spring' or "Ce que je n'ai pas voulu exprimer dans Le sacre du printemps". In: Danuser, H. and Zimmermann, H. eds. Avatar of Modernity : The Rite of Spring Reconsidered. Basel: Paul Sacher Stiftung. , pp.155-173.
2010
- Walsh, S. 2010. Stravinsky, Boulez and the politics of the aviary. In: Dulova, Y. ed. Modern Musicology in the World of Science: Scientific Articles of Belarusian State Academy of Music. Naučnye trudy Belorusskoj Akademii Muzyki Vol. 23.Minsk: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Belorus. , pp.192-203.
- Walsh, S. 2010. The action drama and the still life: Enescu, Stravinsky, and Oedipus. In: Brown, P. and Ograjenšek, S. eds. Ancient Drama in Music for the Modern Stage. Oxford: Oxford University Press. , pp.305-319.
2007
- Walsh, S. 2007. The composer, the antiquarian and the go-between: Stravinsky and the Rosenthals. Musical Times 148 (1898), pp.19-34.
2006
- Walsh, S. 2006. Stravinsky: the second exile: France and America, 1934-1971. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
2004
- Walsh, S. 2004. Mark Carroll, Music and Ideology in Cold War Europe [Book Review]. twentieth-century music 1 (2), pp.308-314. (10.1017/S147857220525017X)
2001
- Walsh, S. 2001. Kurtag's Russian settings: The word made flesh. Contemporary Music Review 20 (2-3), pp.71-88. (10.1080/07494460100640181)
- Walsh, S. 2001. The New Grove Stravinsky. The New Grove Composer Biography Series Oxford: Oxford University Press. (10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.52818)
1996
- Walsh, S. 1996. Stravinsky's symphonies: Accident or design?. In: Ayrey, C. and Everist, M. eds. Analytical Strategies and Musical Interpretation: Essays on Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. , pp.35-71. (10.2277/ 0521543975)
1988
- Walsh, S. 1988. The music of Stravinsky. London: Routledge.
1982
- Walsh, S. 1982. Bartók chamber music. BBC Music Guides London: BBC.
1980
- Walsh, S. 1980. Forte in his own Rite. Soundings (9), pp.81-89.
Articles
- Walsh, S. 2007. The composer, the antiquarian and the go-between: Stravinsky and the Rosenthals. Musical Times 148 (1898), pp.19-34.
- Walsh, S. 2004. Mark Carroll, Music and Ideology in Cold War Europe [Book Review]. twentieth-century music 1 (2), pp.308-314. (10.1017/S147857220525017X)
- Walsh, S. 2001. Kurtag's Russian settings: The word made flesh. Contemporary Music Review 20 (2-3), pp.71-88. (10.1080/07494460100640181)
- Walsh, S. 1980. Forte in his own Rite. Soundings (9), pp.81-89.
Book sections
- Walsh, S. 2013. Remembering 'The Rite of Spring' or "Ce que je n'ai pas voulu exprimer dans Le sacre du printemps". In: Danuser, H. and Zimmermann, H. eds. Avatar of Modernity : The Rite of Spring Reconsidered. Basel: Paul Sacher Stiftung. , pp.155-173.
- Walsh, S. 2010. Stravinsky, Boulez and the politics of the aviary. In: Dulova, Y. ed. Modern Musicology in the World of Science: Scientific Articles of Belarusian State Academy of Music. Naučnye trudy Belorusskoj Akademii Muzyki Vol. 23.Minsk: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Belorus. , pp.192-203.
- Walsh, S. 2010. The action drama and the still life: Enescu, Stravinsky, and Oedipus. In: Brown, P. and Ograjenšek, S. eds. Ancient Drama in Music for the Modern Stage. Oxford: Oxford University Press. , pp.305-319.
- Walsh, S. 1996. Stravinsky's symphonies: Accident or design?. In: Ayrey, C. and Everist, M. eds. Analytical Strategies and Musical Interpretation: Essays on Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. , pp.35-71. (10.2277/ 0521543975)
Books
- Walsh, S. 2013. Musorgsky and his circle. London: Faber & Faber.
- Walsh, S. 2006. Stravinsky: the second exile: France and America, 1934-1971. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
- Walsh, S. 2001. The New Grove Stravinsky. The New Grove Composer Biography Series Oxford: Oxford University Press. (10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.52818)
- Walsh, S. 1988. The music of Stravinsky. London: Routledge.
- Walsh, S. 1982. Bartók chamber music. BBC Music Guides London: BBC.
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Stephen Walsh’s recent research has been mainly in connection with his two-volume Stravinsky biography. He is currently working on a study of composers’ working methods as revealed by their sketches and revisions, and also on a biography of the Russian kuchka, with particular emphasis on Mussorgsky.
Research Papers and Public Lectures
Recent
- US lecture tour to East Coast campuses (including an invited seminar at Juilliard School, New York, and invited paper at Stravinsky conference, Chapel Hill, North Carolina), October/November 2012
- 'Proms Intro' on Stravinsky's Agon, Royal College of Music, BBC Proms, London, 28 August 2009
- 'Stravinsky and Les Noces', Bowdoin College, Maine, 7 May 2007
- 'Stravinsky and the Seasonal Cycle: Rituals of Renunciation and Renewal', 'Movimento et Volumina' Symposium, University of Salzburg, 28 April 2007
- 'Kurtag and Beckett: in the Beginning the Word', Institute of Musical Research, London University, 1 June 2006
- 'Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex, Enescu's Oedipe, and the Parisian stage of the 1920s', Oxford University, 26 October 2005
- Invited paper at 'Stravinsky/Cocteau/Oedipus: Myth, Music and Modernism' colloquium, Bristol University, 7 July 2004
- Pre-concert talks for St David's Hall, Cardiff, Aspen Festival, Colorado and Wye Valley Festival (2007)