Dorothy Howell
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English composer and pianist (1898–1982)
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- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1898-02-25
- Active to
- 1982-01-12
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Dorothy Gertrude Howell (1898-1982) was an English composer and pianist. Howell was born on 25th February 1898, grew up in the Handsworth area of Birmingham, and received a convent education. At the age of fiteen she went to the Royal Academy of Music, where her teachers included John McEwen and Tobias Matthay. Howell achieved fame with her symphonic poem Lamia, whose premiere was given by Henry Wood at the Proms on 10th September 1919, and which he conducted again that same week. <a href="htt
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stainer.co.uk →Composer and pianist Dorothy Howell was born in Birmingham and grew up in Handsworth. At the age of 15 she studied at the Royal Academy of Music where she later taught for 46 years until 1970. Her much praised Piano Concerto in D Minor and a symphonic poem, Lamia , were performed at the Henry Wood Proms when she was still in her twenties. She was nicknamed the ‘English Strauss’. Published by Augener, her Phantasy in G Minor for violin and piano was the 1921 winner of The Cobbett Phantasy Prize.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Gertrude
- Family name
- Howell
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Place of birth
- Birmingham
- Place of death
- Malvern
- Occupation
- pianist
- Educated at
- Royal Academy of Music
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Student of
- Granville Bantock
- Instrument
- piano
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- date of birth
- 1898-02-25
- date of death
- 1982-01-12
- described at URL
- stainer.co.uk/composer/dorothy-howell
- member of
- Royal Philharmonic Society
- pseudonym
- English Strauss
- place of burial
- Little Malvern
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