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'''Graham Johnson''' (born 10 July 1950, [[Bulawayo]], [[Rhodesia]]) is a [[Rhodesia]]n-born, British-based [[pianist]] and [[Lieder]] [[accompanist]].
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'''Graham Johnson''' [[Officer of the Order of the British Empire|OBE]] (born 10 July 1950) is a British [[classical music|classical]] [[pianist]] and [[Lied]]er [[accompanist]].


== Biography ==
Johnson's father played the piano and the saxophone.<ref name="Mermelstein">{{cite news | url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F04E4DF1230F937A15752C0A96F958260&scp=3&sq=&pagewanted=all | title=An Accompanist Steps to the Fore | work=New York Times | author=David Mermelstein | date=1999-01-24 | accessdate=2011-03-17}}</ref> In 1967, Johnson began studies at the [[Royal Academy of Music]] (RAM), where his teachers included Harry Isaacs and John Streets. Johnson has acknowledged a 1972 live recital by [[Peter Pears]] and [[Benjamin Britten]] as key in directing his musical career ambitions towards being an accompanist.<ref name="Johnson">{{cite news | url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/mar/10/schubert-lieder-graham-johnson | title=Schubert: lieder of the pack | work=The Guardian | author=Graham Johnson | date=2011-03-10 | accessdate=2011-03-17}}</ref> After leaving the RAM in 1972, he continued studies with [[Gerald Moore]] and [[Geoffrey Parsons]].
Johnson was born in [[Bulawayo]], [[Southern Rhodesia]]. His father played the piano and the saxophone.<ref name="Mermelstein">{{cite news |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F04E4DF1230F937A15752C0A96F958260&scp=3&sq=&pagewanted=all |title=An Accompanist Steps to the Fore |work=[[The New York Times]] |author=David Mermelstein |date=24 January 1999 |access-date=17 March 2011 }}</ref> In 1967, Johnson began studies at the [[Royal Academy of Music]] (RAM), where his teachers included Harry Isaacs and John Streets. Johnson has acknowledged a 1972 live recital by [[Peter Pears]] and [[Benjamin Britten]] as key in directing his musical career ambitions towards being an accompanist.<ref name="Johnson">{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/mar/10/schubert-lieder-graham-johnson |title=Schubert: lieder of the pack |work=[[The Guardian]] |author=Graham Johnson |date=10 March 2011 |access-date=17 March 2011 }}</ref> After leaving the RAM in 1972, he continued studies with [[Gerald Moore]] and [[Geoffrey Parsons (pianist)|Geoffrey Parsons]].


Johnson was the official pianist at [[Peter Pears]]' first masterclasses at the [[Snape Maltings]], which brought him into contact with [[Benjamin Britten]]. In 1976, he formed The Songmakers' Almanac to explore neglected areas of piano-accompanied vocal music, along with founder singers [[Felicity Lott]], [[Ann Murray]], [[Anthony Rolfe Johnson]] and Richard Jackson. The Songmakers' Almanac has given over 200 programmes throughout its history and has recorded commercially for such labels as [[Hyperion Records]].<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.gramophone.net/Issue/Page/July%201984/52/791692/ | title=Souvenirs de Venise (review of Hyperion CDA66112) | work=Gramophone | author=John Steane ('J.B.S.') | date=July 1984 | accessdate=2011-03-17}}</ref>
Johnson was the official pianist at Peter Pears's first masterclasses at the [[Snape Maltings]], which brought him into contact with Benjamin Britten. In 1976, he formed The Songmakers' Almanac to explore neglected areas of piano-accompanied vocal music, along with founder singers [[Felicity Lott]], [[Ann Murray]], [[Anthony Rolfe Johnson]] and Richard Jackson. The Songmakers' Almanac has given over 200 programmes throughout its history and has recorded commercially for such labels as [[Hyperion Records]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.gramophone.net/Issue/Page/July%201984/52/791692/ |title=Souvenirs de Venise (review of Hyperion CDA66112) |work=Gramophone |author=John Steane ('J.B.S.') |date=July 1984 |access-date=17 March 2011 }}</ref>


Johnson has a long-standing artistic relationship with the [[Wigmore Hall]], as an accompanist and in programming concert series. He devised and accompanied concerts in the hall’s re-opening series in 1992, and in its centenary celebrations in 2001. He has been a member of the jury for the Wigmore Hall Song Competition since its inception.
Johnson has a long-standing artistic relationship with the [[Wigmore Hall]], as an accompanist and in programming concert series. He devised and accompanied concerts in the hall's re-opening series in 1992, and in its centenary celebrations in 2001. He has been a member of the jury for the Wigmore Hall Song Competition since its inception.


Johnson is particularly noted for his commercial recordings of ''Lieder'', most notably for the Hyperion, and his scholarship in his liner notes for these recordings.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/04/arts/music/04gure.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all | title=Schubert's Contemporaries Get Their Due in New Collection | work=The New York Times | author=Matthew Gurewitsch | date=2006-06-04 | accessdate=2011-03-17}}</ref> His first recording for Hyperion was the album "Voices of the Night" (1980).<ref name="Mermelstein"/> His single largest and most renowned project for Hyperion was a series of 37 CDs of the complete ''Lieder'' of Franz Schubert. Hyperion reissued their complete Schubert Edition in 2005 with 3 supplemental CDs of ''Lieder'' by contemporaries and friends of Schubert.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2005/oct/28/classicalmusicandopera.shopping3 | title=Schubert: The Complete Songs, 60 soloists/Johnson (Hyperion, 40 CDs) | work=The Guardian | author=Andrew Clements | date=2005-10-28 | accessdate=2011-03-17}}</ref> Before completion of the Hyperion Schubert Edition Johnson undertook recording, devising the programmes for each disc, and writing the liner notes for the Complete Songs of [[Robert Schumann]],<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/jan/09/schumanmn-lieder-review | title=Schumann Lieder; Müller-Brachmann/McGreevy/Doufexis/ Thompson/Loges/Johnson (Hyperion) | beginning with Christine Schaefer (with whom he won a Gramophone award) and included such singers as Simon Keenlyside, Kate Royal, Ian Bostridge and Dorethea Roeschmann amongst many other artists for the same label. work=The Guardian | author=Tim Ashley | date=2009-01-09 | accessdate=2011-03-17}}</ref> and initiated a recorded cycle of the ''Lieder'' of [[Johannes Brahms]].<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/jun/10/brahms-songs-johnson-cd-review | title=Brahms: Songs (Kirchschlager/Johnson) (Hyperion) | work=The Guardian | author=Tim Ashley | date=2010-06-10 | accessdate=2011-03-17}}</ref> He has also served as accompanist to recordings of French songs.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2005/jan/28/classicalmusicandopera.shopping1 | title=Fauré: Cinq Mélodies 'de Venise'; Mirages; L'Horizon Chimérique, etc, Lott/ Smith/ McGreevy/ Doufexis/ Ainsley/ Maltman/ Varcoe/ Johnson (Hyperion) | work=The Guardian | author=Andrew Clements | date=2005-01-28 | accessdate=2011-03-17}}</ref> Johnson has also recorded commercially for Sony Classical, BMG, harmonia mundi, Forlane, Collins Classics (later reissued on Naxos),<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2005/jun/24/classicalmusicandopera.shopping8 | title=Britten: Folk-Song Arrangements, Lott/ Langridge/ Johnson/ Bonell/ van Kampen (Naxos, two CDs) | work=The Guardian | author=Edward Greenfield | date=2005-06-24 | accessdate=2011-03-17}}</ref> EMI Classics and [[Deutsche Grammophon]].
Johnson is especially noted for his commercial recordings of Lieder, in particular for the Hyperion label, and for his scholarship in his liner notes for these recordings.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/04/arts/music/04gure.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all |title=Schubert's Contemporaries Get Their Due in New Collection |work=[[The New York Times]] |author=Matthew Gurewitsch |date=4 June 2006 |access-date=17 March 2011 }}</ref> His first recording for Hyperion was the album ''Voices of the Night'' (1980).<ref name="Mermelstein"/> His single largest and most renowned project for Hyperion was a series of 37 CDs of the complete Lieder of Franz Schubert. Hyperion reissued their complete Schubert Edition in 2005 with 3 supplemental CDs of Lieder by contemporaries and friends of Schubert.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2005/oct/28/classicalmusicandopera.shopping3 |title=Schubert: The Complete Songs, 60 soloists/Johnson (Hyperion, 40 CDs) |work=[[The Guardian]] |author=Andrew Clements |date=28 October 2005 |access-date=17 March 2011 }}</ref> Before completion of the Hyperion Schubert Edition Johnson undertook recording, devising the programmes for each disc, and writing the liner notes for the Complete Songs of [[Robert Schumann]],<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/jan/09/schumanmn-lieder-review |title=Schumann Lieder; Müller-Brachmann/McGreevy/Doufexis/ Thompson/Loges/Johnson (Hyperion) |work=[[The Guardian]] |author=Tim Ashley |date=9 January 2009 |access-date=17 March 2011 }}</ref> and initiated a recorded cycle of the ''Lieder'' of [[Johannes Brahms]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/jun/10/brahms-songs-johnson-cd-review |title=Brahms: Songs (Kirchschlager/Johnson) (Hyperion) |work=[[The Guardian]] |author=Tim Ashley |date=10 June 2010 |access-date=17 March 2011 }}</ref> He has also served as accompanist to recordings of French songs.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2005/jan/28/classicalmusicandopera.shopping1 |title=Fauré: Cinq Mélodies 'de Venise'; Mirages; L'Horizon Chimérique, etc, Lott/ Smith/ McGreevy/ Doufexis/ Ainsley/ Maltman/ Varcoe/ Johnson (Hyperion) |work=[[The Guardian]] |author=Andrew Clements |date=28 January 2005 |access-date=17 March 2011 }}</ref> Johnson has also recorded commercially for Sony Classical, BMG, harmonia mundi, Forlane, Collins Classics (later reissued on Naxos),<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2005/jun/24/classicalmusicandopera.shopping8 |title=Britten: Folk-Song Arrangements, Lott/ Langridge/ Johnson/ Bonell/ van Kampen (Naxos, two CDs) |work=[[The Guardian]] |author=Edward Greenfield |date=24 June 2005 |access-date=17 March 2011}}</ref> EMI Classics and [[Deutsche Grammophon]].


Johnson is Senior Professor of Accompaniment at the [[Guildhall School of Music]] and has led a biennial scheme for Young Songmakers since 1985. He is the author of several books, including ''The Songmakers' Almanac: Twenty Years of Recitals in London'' (Thames Publishing),<ref>{{cite journal | url=http://www.gramophone.net/Issue/Page/July%201997/29/750599/Going+for+a+song | last=Steane | first=John | title=Going for a song | journal=Gramophone | volume= | issue= | pages=29 | date=July 1997 | accessdate=2011-04-03}}</ref> ''The French Song Companion'' (Oxford University Press; 2000), ''Britten, Voice & Piano: Lectures on the Vocal Music of Benjamin Britten'' (Guildhall; 2003)<ref>{{cite journal | url=http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/not/summary/v061/61.3mctyre.html | last=McTyre | first=Ruthann Boles | title=Britten, Voice, & Piano: Lectures on the Vocal Music of Benjamin Britten (review) | journal=Notes | volume=61 | issue=3 | pages=737–738 | date=March 2005 | accessdate=2011-04-03}}</ref> and ''Gabriel Fauré - The Songs and Their Poets'' (Guildhall; 2009).<ref>{{cite journal | url=http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/notes/summary/v067/67.1.sobaskie.html | last=Sobaskie | first=James William | title=Gabriel Fauré: The Songs and Their Poets (review) | journal=Notes | volume=67 | issue=1 | pages=123–126 | date=September 2010 | accessdate=2011-04-03}}</ref> Pending projects include a three-volume study of Schubert songs and vocal ensembles, and their poets, scheduled for publication by Yale University Press in 2012.
Johnson is Senior Professor of Accompaniment at the [[Guildhall School of Music and Drama]] and has led a biennial scheme for Young Songmakers since 1985. He is the author of several books, including ''The Songmakers' Almanac: Twenty Years of Recitals in London'' (Thames Publishing),<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://www.gramophone.net/Issue/Page/July%201997/29/750599/Going+for+a+song |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120801155331/http://www.gramophone.net/Issue/Page/July%201997/29/750599/Going+for+a+song |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-08-01 |author=John Steane |title=Going for a song |journal=Gramophone |pages=29 |date=July 1997 |access-date=3 April 2011 }}</ref> ''The French Song Companion'' (Oxford University Press; 2000), ''Britten, Voice & Piano: Lectures on the Vocal Music of Benjamin Britten'' (Guildhall; 2003)<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/not/summary/v061/61.3mctyre.html |first=Ruthann Boles McTyre |title=Britten, Voice, & Piano: Lectures on the Vocal Music of Benjamin Britten (review) |journal=Notes |volume=61 |issue=3 |pages=737–738 |date=March 2005 | access-date=3 April 2011 |doi=10.1353/not.2005.0026|last1=McTyre |s2cid=194050688 }}</ref> and ''Gabriel Fauré – The Songs and Their Poets'' (Guildhall; 2009).<ref>{{cite journal | url=http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/notes/summary/v067/67.1.sobaskie.html |first=James William Sobaskie |title=Gabriel Fauré: The Songs and Their Poets (review) |journal=Notes |volume=67 |issue=1 |pages=123–126 |date=September 2010 |access-date=3 April 2011 |doi=10.1353/not.2010.0027|last1=James William Sobaskie |s2cid=194030349 }}</ref> In 2014, Yale University Press published Johnson's three-volume study of Schubert songs and vocal ensembles, and their poets.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://yalebooks.co.uk/display.asp?k=9780300112672 |title=Franz Schubert by Graham Johnson |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=22 September 2014 |publisher=Yale University Press |access-date=25 July 2017}}</ref>


In 1997 Johnson met the American baritone Brandon Velarde with whom he entered into a civil partnership in 2005 .<ref name="Johnson"/>
In 1997 Johnson met the American baritone Brandon Velarde, with whom he entered into a civil partnership in 2005.<ref name="Johnson"/>


==Honours==
== Honours ==
Johnson was made an OBE in the 1994 Queen's Birthday Honours list. He was The Royal Philharmonic Society’s Instrumentalist of the Year in 1998. In June 2000, he was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. In 2002, he was created Chevalier in the [[Ordre des Arts et des Lettres]] by the French government. He was granted Honorary Membership in the Royal Philharmonic Society in 2010.<ref>{{cite press release | url=http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/about-us/news/graham-johnson-awarded-honorary-membership-of-the-royal-philharmonic-society | title=Graham Johnson awarded Honorary Membership of the Royal Philharmonic Society | publisher=Wigmore Hall | date=8 December 2010 | accessdate=2011-03-17}}</ref>
Johnson was created an Officer of the [[Order of the British Empire]] (OBE) in the [[1994 Birthday Honours]] list.<ref>{{London Gazette |date=10 June 1994 |supp=y |issue=53696 |page=13}}</ref> He was the [[Royal Philharmonic Society]]'s Instrumentalist of the Year in 1998. In June 2000, he was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. In 2002, he was created Chevalier in the [[Ordre des Arts et des Lettres]] by the French government. He was granted Honorary Membership in the Royal Philharmonic Society in 2010.<ref>{{cite press release|url=http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/about-us/news/graham-johnson-awarded-honorary-membership-of-the-royal-philharmonic-society |title=Graham Johnson awarded Honorary Membership of the Royal Philharmonic Society |publisher=Wigmore Hall |date=8 December 2010 |access-date=17 March 2011 }}{{dead link|date=March 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>


Awards for his recordings include the ''Gramophone'' solo vocal award in 1989 (with Dame [[Janet Baker]]), 1996 (''[[Die schöne Müllerin]]'' with [[Ian Bostridge]]), 1997 (for the inauguration of the Robert Schumann series with [[Christine Schäfer]]) and 2001 (with [[Magdalena Kozena]]).
Awards for his recordings include the ''Gramophone'' solo vocal award in 1989 (with Dame [[Janet Baker]]), 1996 (''{{lang|de|[[Die schöne Müllerin]]}}'' with [[Ian Bostridge]]), 1997 (for the inauguration of the Robert Schumann series with [[Christine Schäfer]]) and 2001 (with [[Magdalena Kožená]]).


In February 2013 Graham Johnson received a special citation and medal from the [[Jerusalem Music Centre]] in Jerusalem, Israel, where he also gave master classes in piano accompaniment and took part in several concerts of [[Lieder]] by Franz [[Schubert]].
In February 2013 Graham Johnson received a special citation and medal from the [[Jerusalem Music Centre]] in Jerusalem, Israel, where he also gave master classes in piano accompaniment and took part in several concerts of Lieder by [[Franz Schubert]].


In 2018 Graham Johnson was awarded the Schubert Prize by the German Schubert Society for his life's work.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.deutsche-schubert-gesellschaft.de/schubertpreistraeger/|title=Schubertpreisträger der Deutschen Schubert-Gesellschaft|language=German}}</ref>
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In February 2021 Graham Johnson was awarded the [[Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany|Cross of the Order of Merit]] (Bundesverdienstkreuz) by the Federal Republic of Germany in recognition of his “outstanding contribution to the art of German song in Britain.” [[German President]] Frank-Walter Steinmeier praised the British pianist’s “tireless commitment to advancing the careers of young talent” and “special contribution to British-German musical friendship”.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.askonasholt.com/graham-johnson-awarded-germanys-cross-of-the-order-of-merit/ |title=Graham Johnson awarded Germany's Cross of the Order of Merit |work=Askonas Holt website |date=11 February 2021 |access-date=27 May 2022 }}</ref>

==Bibliography==
*''The Songmakers' Almanac. Twenty Years of Recitals in London''. Thames Publishing, 1997
*''The French Song Companion''. Oxford University Press, 2000
*''Britten, Voice & Piano. Lectures on the Vocal Music of Benjamin Britten''. Guildhall, 2003
*''Gabriel Fauré. The Songs and Their Poets''. Guildhall, 2009
*''Franz Schubert. The Complete Songs''. Yale University Press, 2014

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== References ==
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==External links==
== External links ==
* [http://www.askonasholt.co.uk/artists/accompanists/graham-johnson Askonas Holt agency page on Johnson]
* [http://www.askonasholt.co.uk/artists/accompanists/graham-johnson Askonas Holt agency page on Johnson]
* [http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/artist_page.asp?name=johnson Hyperion Records' Graham Johnson page]
* [http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/artist_page.asp?name=johnson Hyperion Records' Graham Johnson page]


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Graham Johnson OBE (born 10 July 1950) is a British classical pianist and Lieder accompanist.

Biography

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Johnson was born in Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia. His father played the piano and the saxophone.[1] In 1967, Johnson began studies at the Royal Academy of Music (RAM), where his teachers included Harry Isaacs and John Streets. Johnson has acknowledged a 1972 live recital by Peter Pears and Benjamin Britten as key in directing his musical career ambitions towards being an accompanist.[2] After leaving the RAM in 1972, he continued studies with Gerald Moore and Geoffrey Parsons.

Johnson was the official pianist at Peter Pears's first masterclasses at the Snape Maltings, which brought him into contact with Benjamin Britten. In 1976, he formed The Songmakers' Almanac to explore neglected areas of piano-accompanied vocal music, along with founder singers Felicity Lott, Ann Murray, Anthony Rolfe Johnson and Richard Jackson. The Songmakers' Almanac has given over 200 programmes throughout its history and has recorded commercially for such labels as Hyperion Records.[3]

Johnson has a long-standing artistic relationship with the Wigmore Hall, as an accompanist and in programming concert series. He devised and accompanied concerts in the hall's re-opening series in 1992, and in its centenary celebrations in 2001. He has been a member of the jury for the Wigmore Hall Song Competition since its inception.

Johnson is especially noted for his commercial recordings of Lieder, in particular for the Hyperion label, and for his scholarship in his liner notes for these recordings.[4] His first recording for Hyperion was the album Voices of the Night (1980).[1] His single largest and most renowned project for Hyperion was a series of 37 CDs of the complete Lieder of Franz Schubert. Hyperion reissued their complete Schubert Edition in 2005 with 3 supplemental CDs of Lieder by contemporaries and friends of Schubert.[5] Before completion of the Hyperion Schubert Edition Johnson undertook recording, devising the programmes for each disc, and writing the liner notes for the Complete Songs of Robert Schumann,[6] and initiated a recorded cycle of the Lieder of Johannes Brahms.[7] He has also served as accompanist to recordings of French songs.[8] Johnson has also recorded commercially for Sony Classical, BMG, harmonia mundi, Forlane, Collins Classics (later reissued on Naxos),[9] EMI Classics and Deutsche Grammophon.

Johnson is Senior Professor of Accompaniment at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and has led a biennial scheme for Young Songmakers since 1985. He is the author of several books, including The Songmakers' Almanac: Twenty Years of Recitals in London (Thames Publishing),[10] The French Song Companion (Oxford University Press; 2000), Britten, Voice & Piano: Lectures on the Vocal Music of Benjamin Britten (Guildhall; 2003)[11] and Gabriel Fauré – The Songs and Their Poets (Guildhall; 2009).[12] In 2014, Yale University Press published Johnson's three-volume study of Schubert songs and vocal ensembles, and their poets.[13]

In 1997 Johnson met the American baritone Brandon Velarde, with whom he entered into a civil partnership in 2005.[2]

Honours

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Johnson was created an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1994 Birthday Honours list.[14] He was the Royal Philharmonic Society's Instrumentalist of the Year in 1998. In June 2000, he was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. In 2002, he was created Chevalier in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. He was granted Honorary Membership in the Royal Philharmonic Society in 2010.[15]

Awards for his recordings include the Gramophone solo vocal award in 1989 (with Dame Janet Baker), 1996 (Die schöne Müllerin with Ian Bostridge), 1997 (for the inauguration of the Robert Schumann series with Christine Schäfer) and 2001 (with Magdalena Kožená).

In February 2013 Graham Johnson received a special citation and medal from the Jerusalem Music Centre in Jerusalem, Israel, where he also gave master classes in piano accompaniment and took part in several concerts of Lieder by Franz Schubert.

In 2018 Graham Johnson was awarded the Schubert Prize by the German Schubert Society for his life's work.[16]

In February 2021 Graham Johnson was awarded the Cross of the Order of Merit (Bundesverdienstkreuz) by the Federal Republic of Germany in recognition of his “outstanding contribution to the art of German song in Britain.” German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier praised the British pianist’s “tireless commitment to advancing the careers of young talent” and “special contribution to British-German musical friendship”.[17]

Bibliography

[edit]
  • The Songmakers' Almanac. Twenty Years of Recitals in London. Thames Publishing, 1997
  • The French Song Companion. Oxford University Press, 2000
  • Britten, Voice & Piano. Lectures on the Vocal Music of Benjamin Britten. Guildhall, 2003
  • Gabriel Fauré. The Songs and Their Poets. Guildhall, 2009
  • Franz Schubert. The Complete Songs. Yale University Press, 2014

References

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  1. ^ a b David Mermelstein (24 January 1999). "An Accompanist Steps to the Fore". The New York Times. Retrieved 17 March 2011.
  2. ^ a b Graham Johnson (10 March 2011). "Schubert: lieder of the pack". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 March 2011.
  3. ^ John Steane ('J.B.S.') (July 1984). "Souvenirs de Venise (review of Hyperion CDA66112)". Gramophone. Retrieved 17 March 2011.
  4. ^ Matthew Gurewitsch (4 June 2006). "Schubert's Contemporaries Get Their Due in New Collection". The New York Times. Retrieved 17 March 2011.
  5. ^ Andrew Clements (28 October 2005). "Schubert: The Complete Songs, 60 soloists/Johnson (Hyperion, 40 CDs)". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 March 2011.
  6. ^ Tim Ashley (9 January 2009). "Schumann Lieder; Müller-Brachmann/McGreevy/Doufexis/ Thompson/Loges/Johnson (Hyperion)". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 March 2011.
  7. ^ Tim Ashley (10 June 2010). "Brahms: Songs (Kirchschlager/Johnson) (Hyperion)". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 March 2011.
  8. ^ Andrew Clements (28 January 2005). "Fauré: Cinq Mélodies 'de Venise'; Mirages; L'Horizon Chimérique, etc, Lott/ Smith/ McGreevy/ Doufexis/ Ainsley/ Maltman/ Varcoe/ Johnson (Hyperion)". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 March 2011.
  9. ^ Edward Greenfield (24 June 2005). "Britten: Folk-Song Arrangements, Lott/ Langridge/ Johnson/ Bonell/ van Kampen (Naxos, two CDs)". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 March 2011.
  10. ^ John Steane (July 1997). "Going for a song". Gramophone: 29. Archived from the original on 1 August 2012. Retrieved 3 April 2011.
  11. ^ McTyre, Ruthann Boles McTyre (March 2005). "Britten, Voice, & Piano: Lectures on the Vocal Music of Benjamin Britten (review)". Notes. 61 (3): 737–738. doi:10.1353/not.2005.0026. S2CID 194050688. Retrieved 3 April 2011.
  12. ^ James William Sobaskie, James William Sobaskie (September 2010). "Gabriel Fauré: The Songs and Their Poets (review)". Notes. 67 (1): 123–126. doi:10.1353/not.2010.0027. S2CID 194030349. Retrieved 3 April 2011.
  13. ^ "Franz Schubert by Graham Johnson". Yale University Press. 22 September 2014. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
  14. ^ "No. 53696". The London Gazette (Supplement). 10 June 1994. p. 13.
  15. ^ "Graham Johnson awarded Honorary Membership of the Royal Philharmonic Society" (Press release). Wigmore Hall. 8 December 2010. Retrieved 17 March 2011.[permanent dead link‍]
  16. ^ "Schubertpreisträger der Deutschen Schubert-Gesellschaft" (in German).
  17. ^ "Graham Johnson awarded Germany's Cross of the Order of Merit". Askonas Holt website. 11 February 2021. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
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