Ethel Smyth | |
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 Smyth in 1922 | |
| Born | 22 April 1858 Sidcup, England |
| Died | 8 May 1944 (aged 86) Woking, England |
| 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.
- ^ S.M. Moon, The Organ Music of Ethel Smyth, Appendix A, 135-137
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