Ethel Smyth
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1858
- Died
- 1944
- Works
- 31
Top works
- Strandrecht
- Streaks of Life
- Delirious tempi in music
- Impressions that remained
- Another side of Ethel Smyth
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Dame Ethel Mary Smyth, DBE (23 April 1858 – 8 May 1944) was an English composer and a leader of the women's suffrage movement. She was born in London. J H Smyth, her father, was a Major-General in the Royal Artillery. She was one of eight siblings two of whom were male, the rest girls. Her family was opposed to her making a career in music. She studied with Alexander Ewing when she was seventeen and took an interest in Wagner and Berlioz. [2] After a major battle with her family about it <a hre
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1858-04-22 ) 22 April 1858, London , England
- Died
- 8 May 1944 (1944-05-08) (aged 86), Woking , England
- Education
- Leipzig Conservatory
- Occupations
- Composer and suffragette
- Works
- List of compositions
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Key dates
- Born
- 22 April 1858
- Died
- 8 May 1944
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Mary
- Family name
- Smith
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Sidcup
- Place of death
- Woking
- Occupation
- writer
- Educated at
- University of Music and Theatre Leipzig
- Languages spoken
- German
Article
Dame Ethel Mary Smyth DBE (/smaɪθ/; 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. 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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