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The first full-length biographical study of Elizabeth Maconchy
(1907-1994). The British-born Irish composer (Dame) Elizabeth
Maconchy (1907-1994) is best known today for her cycle of thirteen
string quartets, composed over five decades. And yet, her oeuvre
ranges from large scale choral works, to ballets, operas, and
symphonic scores. Having studied with Charles Wood and Ralph
Vaughan Williams at the Royal College of Music, many of her
compositions also garnered accolades from peers and established
musical figures such as Gustav Holst, Donald Francis Tovey, and
Henry Wood, among others. With access to a wealth of documentation
previously unavailable, this book explores Maconchy's life and
music within a greater consideration of the social and political
context of the world in which she lived. While the influence of
Bartók has been well documented, this book reveals the equally
potent influence of Vaughan Williams on Maconchy's musical idiom.
This book also discusses Maconchy's foray into administration and
her advocacy of young composers through her work as the first woman
to be elected Chairman of the Composers' Guild of Great Britain in
1959 and President of the Society for the Promotion of New Music
following the death of Benjamin Britten in 1976. It will be
required reading for those interested in the lives of women
composers, twentieth-century British music, and musical modernism.
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