Papers of Richard Meale, circa 1890-2009 [manuscript]
- Bib ID:
- 3303752
- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author:
- Meale, Richard, 1932-2009
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Related Online Resources:
- Finding aid at National Library of Australia
- Access Conditions:
- Available for research. Not for loan.
- Description:
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- [ca. 1890-2009]
- 32.0 m. (55 boxes) + 39 fol. boxes + 1 map folio.
- Summary:
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MS 10076 contains papers created and collected by the composer Richard Meale including correspondence, business/administrative records, manuscript music, papers relating to compositions, recordings, papers relating to other writings and projects, papers relating to university and teaching work, family papers, photographs, papers relating to Meale's role as director of the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA), music by students and contemporaries, published music, ephemera, newspaper cuttings and publications (52 boxes, 34 fol. boxes, 1 map folio).
The Acc10.182 instalment comprises music scores, correspondence, ephemera, awards and photographs. The music scores are largely manuscript, printed and published works of Richard Meale, with a smaller number of compositions and published works by other composers, including Andrew Ford and Freeman McGrath (3 boxes, 5 fol. boxes).
- Biography/History:
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Composer, pianist, broadcaster, conductor and lecturer. Dr Richard Graham Meale studied music, including piano under Winifred Burston, at the New South Wales State Conservatorium of Music, remaining self-taught in composition. In 1960, he won a Ford Foundation Grant, and used it to study non-Western music at the University of California. In the 1960s and 1970s Meale was acclaimed for works including Nocturnes (1967), Very high kings (1968), Clouds now and then (1969), Soon it will die (1969), Interiors/exteriors (1970), Coruscations (1971), Incredible floridas (1971), Evocations (1973), String quartet (1975), and Viridian (1979). Meale's first opera, Voss, based on Patrick White's novel, premiered in Adelaide in 1986. His second opera, Mer de glace, premiered in Sydney in 1991. David Malouf wrote the librettos for both. In 2003, Meale's Three Miro pieces won Best Composition by an Australian Composer at the Classical Music Awards. In 1985, he was created a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for service to music. Meale died in Sydney in 2009.
- Notes:
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- Manuscript reference no.: MS 10076, MS Acc10.182.
- Also available online https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-414649910
- Related Material:
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- Portrait of Richard Meale at work in Adelaide; Located at; National Library of Australia Pictures collection PIC P2183.
- Richard Meale interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection; Located at; National Library of Australia Oral History collection ORAL TRC 1/174.
- Richard Meale interviewed by Robyn Holmes; Located at; National Library of Australia Oral History collection ORAL TRC 6066.
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Finding aid available online.
- Subject:
- Time Coverage:
- 1890-2009
- Occupation:
- Composers
- Other authors/contributors:
- Terms of Use:
- Copying of Richard Meale's copyright material permitted for research purposes.
- Exhibited:
- Selected items exhibited in: "The Life of Patrick White", National Library of Australia, 13 April - 8 July 2012, State Library of New South Wales, 20 August to 28 October 2012.
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary, dramatic or musical work
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