Ethel Smyth
1858
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1944
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
genre: opera
country of citizenship: United Kingdom
educated at: University of Music and Theatre Leipzig
occupation: composer, librettist, conductor, autobiographer, suffragist, writer, women's rights activist, suffragette, nurse
award received: Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, honorary doctor of the University of St Andrews, honorary doctor of Durham University, Honorary doctor of the University of Oxford
student of: Carl Reinecke, Heinrich von Herzogenberg
official website: www.ethelsmyth.org
Dame Ethel Mary Smyth (; 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. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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