The Memoirs of Ethel Smyth, abridged and introduced by Ronald Crichton

Smyth, Ethel

ISBN 10: 0670806552 / ISBN 13: 9780670806553

Published by Viking, 1987

About this Item

Dame Ethel Mary Smyth DBE was an English composer and a member of the women's suffrage movement. Her compositions include songs, works for piano, chamber music, orchestral works, choral works and operas. Smyth tended to be marginalised as a "woman composer", as though her work could not be accepted as mainstream. This copy is in very good condition, dw is price-clipped but has a tipped in letter from Jory Bennett who compiled a list of works for the publication. Seller Inventory # 45

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Memoirs of Ethel Smyth, abridged and ...

Publisher: Viking

Publication Date: 1987

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

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Synopsis:

Selections from the writings of Smyth, author, composer, and feminist, describe her initial attraction to music, her education, and her impressions of the important people of the day

Reviews:

Dame Ethel Smyth (1858-1944) was a lively inhabitant of varied worlds, which she recreated in nine autobiographical volumes. In this abridgement of her memoirs by the former music critic of London's Finacial Times, we see her as an accomplished musician (composer of six operas), active in the suffragette movement with Emmeline Pankhurst, and as a woman capable of passionate attachment to other, often older, women. Smyth was accepted among the coteries of Brahms, Schumann and Mendelssohn and was an intimate of such luminaries as ex-Empress Eugenie of France and Queen Victoria, all captured in elegant, often amusing, vignettes. A long and eventful life is recorded here by an artist prominent in the revival of interest in British music of the earlier part of this century.
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