Binding: Hardcover
Description: * Winner OF THE Royal Philharmonic Society Storytelling Award** Shortlisted FOR THE Slightly Foxed BEST First Biography Prize 2023* The lives loves adventures and trailblazing musical careers of four extraordinary women from a stunning debut biographer. Fabulous. Sunday Times A rare gift. Financial Times Passionate Vivid Timely. Telegraph Readable and inspiring. Guardian Compelling Ambitious Poignant. Spectator Magnificent. Kate Mosse Riveting. Antonia Fraser A breath of fresh air. Kate Molleson Fascinating. Alexandra Harris Wonderful. Claire Tomalin Splendid. Miranda Seymour Remarkable. Fiona Maddocks Pioneering. Andrew Motion Brilliant Helen Pankhurst Ethel Smyth (b.1858): Famed for her operas this trailblazing queer Victorian composer was a larger - than - life socialite intrepid traveller and committed Suffragette. Rebecca Clarke (b.1886): This talented violist and Pre - Raphaelite beauty was one of the first 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 revolutionises the canon forever.
Title: Quartet How Four Women Changed The Musical World - Magnificent (Kate Mosse)
Author(s): Broad Leah
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Barcode: 9780571366101
Pages: 480 Pages
Publication Date: 9/5/2023
Category: Feminism & Feminist Theory