Herbert Elwell 赫伯特·埃尔威尔

赫伯特·艾威尔（Herbert Elwell，1898年5月10日至1974年4月17日）是美国作曲家和音乐评论家。他是明尼阿波利斯市人，是最早与纳迪亚·布朗厄尔（Nadia Boulanger）在法国学习的美国人之一。在巴黎时，他的《钢琴和弦乐五重奏》（1924年）比乔治·格什温的《蓝色狂想曲》获得了更多赞誉，后者在同一场音乐会上首演。他在明尼苏达大学开始音乐研究，然后在法国逗留之前与Ernest Bloch合作。他还参加了在罗马的美国学院，在此期间，他创作了最常表演的芭蕾舞作品《快乐伪君子》（The Happy Hypocrite，1925年）。

1928年，埃尔威尔（Elwell）搬到俄亥俄州克利夫兰（Cleveland），加入克利夫兰音乐学院（Cleveland Music Institute）担任作曲和音乐理论系教授，直到1945年。 。他的一些著名学生包括贝恩·默里（Bain Murray），沃尔特·阿沙芬堡（Walter Aschaffenburg）和霍华德·惠特克（Howard Whittaker）。他还曾担任The Plain Dealer的音乐评论家32年。

作为作曲家，埃尔威尔创作了大量的室内音乐和人声音乐。他的许多声乐作品都是为女高音玛丽·西姆林克·卡夫特（Marie Simmelink Kraft）写的。他还创作了许多管弦乐作品，这些作品受到指挥家如Artur Rodzinski，Leopold Stokowski，William Steinberg和Howard Hanson的赞扬。1961年，他被授予首届克利夫兰音乐艺术奖。他的其他荣誉包括帕德鲁夫斯基奖，国家艺术与文学学院的马乔里·皮博迪·怀特奖以及罗彻斯特大学和西方储备大学的名誉博士学位。

Herbert Elwell (May 10, 1898 - April 17, 1974) was an American composer and music critic. A native of Minneapolis, he was among the first Americans to study in France with Nadia Boulanger. While in Paris his Quintet for Piano and Strings (1924) garnered more praise than George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, which was premiered at the same concert. He began his studies in music at the University of Minnesota, and went on to work with Ernest Bloch prior to his sojourn in France. He also attended the American Academy in Rome during which time he composed his most frequently performed work, the ballet The Happy Hypocrite (1925).

In 1928 Elwell moved to Cleveland, Ohio to join the composition and music theory faculty at the Cleveland Institute of Music where he remained until 1945. He later taught at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music for nine years and spent summers teaching at the Eastman School of Music. Some of his notable pupils include Bain Murray, Walter Aschaffenburg, and Howard Whittaker. He also served as the music critic for The Plain Dealer for 32 years.

As a composer, Elwell wrote a considerable body of chamber music and vocal music. Many of his vocal pieces were written for soprano Marie Simmelink Kraft. He also composed a number of orchestral works which were extolled by such conductors as Artur Rodzinski, Leopold Stokowski, William Steinberg and Howard Hanson. In 1961 he was awarded the first Cleveland Arts Prize for Music. His other accolades include the Paderewski Prize, the Marjorie Peabody Waite Award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and honorary doctorates from the University of Rochester and Western Reserve University.