Ethel Smyth | |
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Born | Sidcup, England | 22 April 1858
Died | 8 May 1944 Woking, England | (aged 86)
Education | Leipzig Conservatory |
Occupation(s) | Composer and suffragette |
Works | List of compositions |
Dame Ethel Mary Smyth DBE (/smaɪθ/;[1] 22 April 1858 – 8 May 1944) was an English composer and a member of the women's suffrage movement. Her compositions include songs, works for piano, chamber music, orchestral works, choral works and operas.
Smyth tended to be marginalised as a "woman composer", as though her work could not be accepted as mainstream.[2] Yet when she produced more delicate compositions, they were criticised for not measuring up to the standard of her male peers. She was the first female composer granted a damehood.
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