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Lutyens, Maconchy, Williams and Twentieth-Century British Music - A Blest Trio of Sirens (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Lutyens, Maconchy, Williams and Twentieth-Century British Music - A Blest Trio of Sirens (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Elisabeth Lutyens (1906-1983), Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994) and
Grace Williams (1906-1977) were contemporaries at the Royal College
of Music. The three composers' careers were launched with
performances in the Macnaghten-Lemare Concerts in the 1930s - a
time when, in Britain, as Williams noted, a woman composer was
considered 'very odd indeed'. Even so, by the early 1940s all three
had made remarkable advances in their work: Lutyens had become the
first British composer to use 12-note technique, in her Chamber
Concerto No. 1 (1939-40); Maconchy had composed four string
quartets of outstanding quality and was busy rethinking the genre;
and Williams had won recognition as a composer with great flair for
orchestral writing with her Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Tunes (1940)
and Sea Sketches (1944). In the following years, Lutyens, Maconchy
and Williams went on to compose music of striking quality and to
attain prominent positions within the British music scene. Their
respective achievements broke through the 'sound ceiling',
challenging many of the traditional assumptions which accompanied
music by female composers. Rhiannon Mathias traces the development
of these three important composers through analysis of selected
works. The book draws upon previously unexplored material as well
as radio and television interviews with the composers themselves
and with their contemporaries. The musical analysis and contextual
material lead to a re-evaluation of the composers' positions in the
context of twentieth-century British music history.
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