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Ina Boyle (1889-1967) - A Composers Life (Hardcover)
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Ina Boyle (1889-1967) - A Composers Life (Hardcover)
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The Irish composer, Ina Boyle (1889-1967), was born in Enniskerry,
Co. Wicklow, where she enjoyed a sheltered childhood as a member of
an Anglo-Irish family with roots in the medical, military and
diplomatic professions. Her first music teacher was her clergyman
father, who made violins for a hobby. She started to compose from
an early age and soon found a passion for music that lasted a
lifetime, spanning two world wars, the 1916 rebellion, the war of
independence, the civil war and the economic war.Ina Boyle studied
privately in Dublin with C.H. Kitson and Percy Buck, she had her
first success in 1919 when her orchestral rhapsody, `The magic
harp', which was selected for publication by the prestigious
Carnegie United Kingdom Trust and was performed by the London
Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Adrian Boult. From 1923, realising
the need to expand her musical horizons, she visited London for
composition lessons with Ralph Vaughan Williams whenever family
duties allowed, until her travels were curtailed by the outbreak of
the Second World War. Vaughan Williams thought highly of her works
but, despite her best efforts to promote them, few were performed
in public. During the 1940s some of her orchestral music was
broadcast on Radio Eireann in a series of programmes on Irish
composers. After the death of her father in 1951, she was again
free to travel to London while devoting the rest of her life to
composition. As one of twentieth-century Ireland's most prolific
composers and the first Irishwoman to undertake a symphony, a
concerto and a ballet, this first book on the life and music of Ina
Boyle is long overdue.
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