Philip Catelinet bio and notes about Call of the Seaons

[adamfrey]

I am preparing the program notes for the publication of Philip Catelinet's Call of the Seasons. Out of print and difficult to find for many many years, I always like to include some biographical information and program note.

I know he premiered the Vaughn Williams and played in London as well as composed a number of pieces, but was looking for more. If you can help that is excellent as most web searches come up with very little substance.

Best wishes and this title should be ready by the middle of May.

Thanks,

[BriceT]

I know that he arranged Andante and Rondo from Concerto for Double Bass/ Antonio Capuzzi.

Good luck with your search!

[jeopardymaster]

Was he not in Pittsburgh for a time? I thought he taught a few years at Duquesne, or possibly Carnegie Mellon.

[BVD Press]

In Google, I typed in "Philip Catelinet bio" and this tidbit popped up. I didn't found out much from the search, but if the below is accurate maybe somone in the Salvation Army or Brass Band world would have some info:

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in 1919, Eric Ball took a job in The Salvation Army Musical Instrument Department at Judd Street in central London. He soon progressed to The Musical Editorial Department where he would spend twenty eight years, and where he worked alongside such well known Salvation Army composers as Philip Catelinet, Bramwell Coles, Albert Jakeway and George Marshall, as well as Henry Hall, later to become famous as a band leader. He was a bandmaster of the International Staff Band of The Salvation Army and a prominent figure in the brass band world. A prolific composer and arranger, many of his works remain in the repertoire

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A bunch of solos can be found here by Catelinet:

http://www.injofferings.com/CMIarchivemusic.htm

I had no idea he was so prolific!

[adamfrey]

I had some help from Richard Holz at the Salvation Army and he sent me a memorial piece from the British Bandsman in 1996. I have summerized and condensed to the following:



Philip Bramwell Catelinet was born in Guernsey in the United Kingdom in 1910. At a young age, he was immersed in music and grew to be an accomplished pianist, composer, arranger, euphoniumist, and tubist. Catelinet was a dedicated Salvation Army member and occupied a number of positions for the Army during his life including becoming an officer and working in the Music Editorial Department, bandmaster at Battersea, euphoniumist with the International Staff Band, and later as a music consultant to the Salvation Army in Pittsburgh, PA. As a tubist, his name is synonymous with the world premiere of the Vaughn Williams Tuba Concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra in 1954. As a composer, Catelinet amassed a large body of repertoire including 15 orchestral works, 30+ works for wind band, 50+ works for brass band, a vast number of arrangements and compositions for brass soloists and brass chamber groups, and an astounding 200+ works for the Salvation Army. He and his family emigrated to the US in 1956 to the Pittsburgh area and one of his last teaching posts was at Carnegie Mellon University. Philip Catelinet died in 1995 and on a personal level was known as a kind and gentle man.

[eupher61]

I fondly remember a short chat with Mr Catlinet in the mid-80s, the first and only time I had that privilege. He did mention that he was really a euphoniumist at that point still, but had been pressed into service on F tuba, and sort of stuck with it. He told me the somewhat famous story about the VW concerto, the original intent for harmonica, and the critic's line of "you might as well write it for bass 'tyuba' " (phonetcially, as he wonderfully intoned it.)

A very gracious man who gave a lot to the world! Thanks for the additional bio information.