The life and music of Alice Mary Smith (1839-1884), a woman composer of the Victorian era :: a critical assessment of her achievement /

At a time when women were thought to succeed only in composing drawing-room songs or light-weight piano pieces, Alice Mary Smith (1839-1884) wrote by far the greatest number of larger-scale art works of any British woman composer in the nineteenth century. She was most probably the first woman to ha...

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1. Verfasser: Graham-Jones, Ian
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, ©2010.
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Zusammenfassung:At a time when women were thought to succeed only in composing drawing-room songs or light-weight piano pieces, Alice Mary Smith (1839-1884) wrote by far the greatest number of larger-scale art works of any British woman composer in the nineteenth century. She was most probably the first woman to have written - and had performed - a symphony, composed in 1863 at the age of twenty-four. Two of her six concert overtures were regularly performed by distinguished conductors of the time, and her four cantatas for choir and orchestra achieved some popularity in the last years of her short life. This.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (vii, 179 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references, discography, and index.
ISBN:9780773420700
0773420703

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