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Dame Ethel Smyth (1858 - 1944)
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 Smyth:
Complete Piano Works / Liana Serbescu Ethel
Smyth (Composer), Liana Serbescu (Performer)
The Complete Piano Works of Ethel Smyth are
presented on two CDs, performed by Liana Serbescu:
(To hear a song sample, click HERE.)
 | Sonata for Piano no 1 in C major |
| Sonata for Piano no 2 in f# minor |
| Sonata for Piano no 3 in D major |
| Dances (4) for Piano |
| Canons (2) for Piano |
| Invention for Piano in D major |
| Suite for Piano in E major |
| To Youth! |
| Piece for Piano in E major |
| Variations for Piano in D flat major on an
Original Theme |
| Prelude and Fugue for Piano in F sharp major |
| Prelude and Fugue for Piano in C major |
More Smyth Music Available:
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From The Knitting Circle
Excerpt:
In 1890 she made her debut in England with her 'Seranade
in D' at the Crystal Palace. She established her reputation with
her 'Mass in D' which was performed at the Albert Hall. In 1903
her Der Wald became the first and only opera by a woman to
be performed in New York's Metropolitan Opera.
In 1910 she went to a meeting of the Women's
Social and Political Union which was being addressed by Emmeline
Pankhurst. Afterwards she resolved to spend two years with the
movement. She composed 'The March of Women' which became the
anthem of the suffragettes. In March 1912 she was arrested for
smashing the windows of the Colonial Secretary and spent three
weeks in Holloway Prison. She led the women in prison in a
rendition of 'The March of Women', conducting with her toothbrush...
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By Valarie Morris, ©1996 Skyblue Productions
Skyblue Productions would like to contribute
more information to internet audiences about Ethel Smyth, a
fascinating composer, writer, and political activist. The text
includes liberal quotations by Ethel Smyth and other writers of
her time.
Besides writing many compositions,
Ms. Smyth wrote10 books
that vividly record her experiences. These texts, along with other
writers' perceptions, provide us with a picture of Ethel Smyth...
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From GayGate.com
Excerpt:
Possessing indefatigable energies, resilient
self-confidence ("I am the most interesting person I know,
and I don't care if anyone else thinks so," she declared in
1935) and a personality that was larger than life, Smyth fell in
love with numerous women throughout her long life. Reading
Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own sparked in her a desire to
meet the author, which she did in 1930. Seventy-one at the time,
Smyth fell in love, recording in her diary, "I don't think I
have ever cared for anyone more profoundly. For eighteen months I
have thought of little else." She became one of Woolf's most
devoted--and demanding--friends, and dedicated her volume As Time
Went On to her in 1936...
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