The life and music of Alice Mary Smith (1839-1884), a woman composer of the Victorian era : a critical assessment of her achievement / Ian Graham-Jones ; with a foreword by Roger Parker.

9780773420700 (electronic bk.)
0773420703 (electronic bk.)
9780773413832
0773413839

Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, ©2010.

English

1 online resource (vii, 179 pages) : illustrations

ML410.S634 G73 2010eb

(OCoLC)780444586

At a time when women were thought to succeed only in composing drawing-room songs or light-weight piano pieces, Alice Mary Smith (1839-1884) wrote by far the greatest number of larger-scale art works of any British woman composer in the nineteenth century. She was most probably the first woman to have written - and had performed - a symphony, composed in 1863 at the age of twenty-four. Two of her six concert overtures were regularly performed by distinguished conductors of the time, and her four cantatas for choir and orchestra achieved some popularity in the last years of her short life. This.

Includes bibliographical references, discography, and index.

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Print version: Graham-Jones, Ian. Life and music of Alice Mary Smith (1839-1884), a woman composer of the Victorian era. Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, ©2010

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