Quartet
How Four Women Changed the Musical World
London : Faber, 2023.
Format: Book
Description: vii, 472 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
"Ethel Smyth (b.1858): Famed for her operas, this trailblazing queer Victorian composer was a larger-than-life socialite, intrepid traveler, and committed Suffragette. Rebecca Clarke (b.1886): This talented violist and Pre-Raphaelite beauty was one of thefirst women ever hired by a professional orchestra, later celebrated for her modernist experimentation. Dorothy Howell (b.1898): A prodigy who shot to fame at the 1919 Proms, her reputation as the "English Strauss" never dented her modesty; on retirement, she tended Elgar's grave alone. Doreen Carwithen (b.1922): One of Britain's first woman film composers who scored Elizabeth II's coronation film, her success hid a 20-year affair with her married composition tutor. In their time, these women were celebrities. They composed some of the century's most popular music and pioneered creative careers; but today, they are ghostly presences, surviving only as muses and footnotes to male contemporaries like Elgar, Vaughan Williams and Britten--until now.Leah Broad's magnificent group biography resurrects these forgotten voices, recounting lives of rebellion, heartbreak, and ambition, and celebrating their musical masterpieces. Lighting up a panoramic sweep of British history over two World Wars, Quartet revolutionizes the canon forever"-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects:
Smyth, Ethel, 1858-1944.
Clarke, Rebecca, 1886-1979.
Howell, Dorothy, 1898-1982.
Carwithen, Doreen, 1922-2003.
Women composers -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Smyth, Ethel, 1858-1944.
Clarke, Rebecca, 1886-1979.
Howell, Dorothy, 1898-1982.
Carwithen, Doreen, 1922-2003.
Women composers -- Great Britain -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780571366101
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Includes bibliographical references, discography (pages 419-422), and index.