Joubert, John (Pierre Herman)

Joubert, John (Pierre Herman) (b Cape Town, 1927). S. African composer. Settled in Brit. 1946. Lect. in mus. at Hull Univ. 1950–62 and Birmingham Univ. 1962–86. Works incl.:OPERAS: Antigone, radio (1954); Silas Marner (1961); The Quarry (1964); The Prisoner (1973); The Wayfarers (1983).ORCH.: Symphonic Prelude (1953); vn. conc. (1954); syms.: No.1 (1955), No.2 (1970); pf. conc. (1958); Sinfonietta (1962); bn. conc. (1974); Threnos, hpd., 12 solo str. (1974); Déploration (1978); Temps perdu, str. (1984).CHORAL: The Burghers of Calais, sop., counterten., 2 ten., bar., bass, ch., chamber orch. (1953); Urbs Beata, ten., bar., ch., orch. (1963); The Martyrdom of St Alban, spkr., ten., bass, ch., chamber orch. (1968); The Raising of Lazarus, mez., ten., ch., orch. (1970); Herefordshire Canticles, sop., bar., ch., boys' ch., orch. (1979); Gong-Tormented Sea, bar., ch., orch. (1981); The Instant Moment, bar., str. (1986).UNACC. VOICES: There Is No Rose (1954); Welcome Yule (1958); The Beatitudes (1964); 4 Stations on the Road to Freedom (1972); 2 Antiphons, male vv. (1974); 3 Portraits (1983); 3 Carols (1984); Rotate Coeli (1985).VOICE(S) & INSTR(S).: Great Lord of Lords, ch., org. (1954); Missa beata Ioannis, ch., org. (1961); Te Deum, sop., ch., org. (1964); Lord, Thou hast been our refuge, ch., org. (1967);; Magnificat and Nunc dimittis, ch., org. (1968); I will lift up mine eyes, women's vv., pf. (1969); 3 Hymns to St Oswald, ch., org. (1972, rev. 1974); Music for a Pied Piper, ch., rec., 2 vn., bass viol, violine, 2 lutes (1985); Vision and Prayer, ch., pf. (4 hands) (1986); Missa brevis, ch., org. (1988).SONGS & SONG-CYCLES: 2 Invocations (Blake), ten., pf. (1958); 6 Poems of Emily Brontë, high v., pf. (1969); African Sketchbook, 4 vv., wind quintet (1970); Crabbed Age and Youth, counterten., rec., viola da gamba, hpd. (1974); The Turning Wheel, sop., pf. (1979); The Hour Hand, sop., rec. (1984).CHAMBER MUSIC: str. qts.: No.1 (1950), No.2 (1977), No.3 (1986), No.4 (1987); va. sonata (1951); str. trio (1958); Octet (1961); Kontakion, vc., pf. (1971); Chamber Music for Brass Quintet (1985); pf. trio (1986).PIANO: Sonatas: No.1 (1957), No.2 (1972); Divertimento, pf. duet (1950); Dance Suite (1956).