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|name = Gerard Victory |image = |image_size = |caption = |background = non_performing_personnel |birth_name = Thomas Gerard Joseph Victory |birth_date = {{birth date|1921|12|24|df=y}} |origin = Dublin, Ireland |death_date = {{death date and age|1995|3|14|1921|12|24|df=y}} |death_place = Dublin, Ireland |instrument = |genre = |occupation = Composer |years_active = |website = }} Thomas Joseph Gerard Victory (24 December 1921 – 14 March 1995) was a prolific Irish composer. He wrote over two hundred works across many genres and styles, including tonal, serial, aleatoric and electroacoustic music.[1][1] BiographyVictory was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1921 the son of a shop keeper Thomas Victory and his wife, Delia (née Irwin).[2] After schooling, he read Celtic Studies at University College, Dublin and Music at Trinity College, Dublin, earning a doctorate in 1972.[3] In April 1948 Victory married Geraldine Herity, they had five children: Alma, Fiona, Isolde, Raymond, and Alan.[2] Victory died in Dublin on 14 March 1995, aged 73. His papers are held in Trinity College and the Contemporary Music Centre hold a number of his scores.[2] CareerIn terms of composition, Victory was mostly self-taught, although he received some formal training from John F. Larchet, Alan Rawsthorne and Walter Beckett.[2] He also attended the "International Summer Courses for New Music" in Darmstadt, Germany. In 1948 he was joint composer of music for a song in a play by Irish playwrightTeresa Deevy called Light Falling,[4] this was performed by the Abbey Experimental Theatre Company in the Peacock Theatre, Dublin. Victory's career was primarily in music administration, serving as Director of Music for Ireland's national broadcasting station RTÉ from 1967 to 1982.[5] He was a president of UNESCO's International Rostrum of Composers, a Fellow of the Royal Irish Academy of Music and a recipient of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and German Bundesverdienstkreuz.[2] LegacyThe Gerard Victory Commission is a prize has been named in his honour awarded to the most promising individual composer.[6] Selected worksOrchestral
Ensemble
Solo piano
Vocal
Operas
Band
Mixed media
Recordings
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References1. ^{{cite book|last1=Strimple|first1=Nick|title=Choral Music in the Twentieth Century|date=2005|publisher=Amadeus Press|location=North Devon|isbn=9781574673784|page=95}} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Victory, Gerard}}2. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite web|last1=Ryan|first1=Joseph J.|title=Victory (Thomas Joseph) Gerard|website=Dictionary of Irish Biography|publisher=Cambridge University Press|accessdate=17 February 2015}} 3. ^1 {{cite book|last1=Klein|first1=Axel|title=Irish Classical Recordings: A Discography of Irish Art Music|date=2001|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|location=Westport, US|isbn=9780313317422|page=182}} 4. ^{{Cite web|url=http://deevy.nuim.ie/items/show/333|title=The Teresa Deevy Archive|last=|first=|date=|website=|publisher=|access-date=}} 5. ^{{cite web|last1=Contemporary Music Centre|title=Gerard Victory (1921-1995)|url=http://www.cmc.ie/composers/composer.cfm?composerID=112|website=Contemporary Music Centre, Ireland|accessdate=17 February 2015}} 6. ^{{cite news|last1=Unknown |title=Brigid's students work with national choir |url=http://www.kilkennypeople.ie/news/kilkenny-news/brigid-s-students-work-with-national-choir-1-2151927 |accessdate=17 February 2015 |agency=Kilkenny People |date=2005 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150218020833/http://www.kilkennypeople.ie/news/kilkenny-news/brigid-s-students-work-with-national-choir-1-2151927 |archivedate=18 February 2015 |df= }} 11 : 1921 births|1995 deaths|20th-century classical composers|Composers for piano|Irish classical composers|Irish male classical composers|Irish opera composers|Male opera composers|Musicians from Dublin (city)|Recipients of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany|20th-century male musicians |
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