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267:). The edition which Beaumont has translated includes these letters in unedited form and includes an additional 188 letters and other unpublished documents. "The texts, supplemented by detailed commentaries, depict an explosive relationship between two people of widely differing character and temperament. The Mahler that emerges from these authentic, unabridged sources is warm, genuine and touchingly human." 155:
action for Mephistopheles (he lifts the body of Faust onto his shoulders and slowly leaves the stage), and a final choral passage not found in the Jarnach version. These changes extend the scene from approximately 25 to 29 minutes. The full score of the Beaumont completion exists as a manuscript; the vocal score was published by
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chords; in the Busoni/Beaumont version Faust achieves a self-actualized resurrection: "In the freedom I have won, God and the Devil succumb." Perhaps Jarnach was uncomfortable with the morality, or perceived lack thereof, of Busoni's original intentions. The changes in Scene 3 also include additional
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Desolate at the end of a romance with Gustav Klimt, Alma Mahler-Werfel falls briefly in love with her piano teacher, Zemlinsky: 'so immeasurably great!' she writes dramatically. Hers was a life filled with such drama for soon she was attracted to Gustav Mahler. Mahler-Werfel was a wildly dramatic
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Further research led to Beaumont's translation and publication in 2004 of letters written by Gustav Mahler to Alma, during the period when she was Mahler's wife. Alma had published many of these letters in 1940, but they were heavily edited to present herself in the best way possible (see
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and include slightly altered text and additional music for the character of Faust such that the scene plays for approximately 39 instead of 37 minutes. In the Jarnach version of Scene 3, the final scene, Faust suffers a conventional kind of doom, dying to the accompaniment of
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at the library of the American University, Beaumont found her early diaries dating from that period of her life. Beaumont edited and translated the diaries and published them in 1999. About this volume, Kirkus Reviews UK wrote:
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In the late 1990s Beaumont began studying the life and music of Zemlinsky, conducting and recording several lesser known pieces (see below), and preparing a completion of Zemlinsky's unfinished opera
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character and a charismatic beauty. Her diaries, scribbled in old exercise books, record her development from adolescence to womanhood, up to her marriage to Mahler. They provide a vivid picture of
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Zemlinsky: Die Seejungfrau, Fantasy for Orchestra (1902-3); Symphony in D minor. Czech Philharmonic. Chandos CHAN 10138 (2003) (includes , accessed on 14 August 2010)
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The Beaumont version has not been used often in staged productions of the opera. It was premiered in
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was mounted in the late 1980s. The English performances (beginning 25 April 1986) were conducted by
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Ross, Alex (2001). "Outsiders. Ferruccio Busoni and Frank Martin come in from the cold."
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Beaumont has prepared new versions of the final two scenes of Busoni's unfinished opera
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and became a German citizen. Beaumont has held conducting posts with orchestras in
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Zemlinsky: Lyric Symphony; Complete incidental music to Shakespeare's
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music from the first half of the 20th century, including works by
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website, 2011 Winter Music Creative Residencies, Program Faculty.
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Beaumont, Antony & Susanne Rode-Breymann, eds. & trans.,
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English and German musicologist, writer, conductor and violinist
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and violinist. As a conductor, he has specialized in
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Weill: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2; Quodlibet, Op. 9.
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Helen of Troy
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English National Opera

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