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Dame Elizabeth Violet Maconchy LeFanu DBE (/ m ə ˈ k ɒ ŋ k iː ˈ l ɛ f æ n uː /; 19 March 1907 – 11 November 1994) was an Irish-English composer. [1] [2] [3] She is considered to be one of the finest composers Great Britain and Ireland have produced.
May 17, 2018 · Born and educated during an era that rarely encouraged women to practice the art of musical composition, Elizabeth Maconchy (1907–1994)—British but of Irish descent and upbringing—became, in the words of Martin Anderson of London's Independent newspaper, "one of the most substantial composers these islands have yet produced."
Maconchy was among the most gifted and determined of the group of RCM composers in the late 1920s, including Lutyens, Grace Williams, Dorothy Gow, Imogen Holst and Ina Boyle. Maconchy’s composition was greatly encouraged by her teachers Charles Wood and Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Biography. "Elizabeth Maconchy was a composer of great versatility and unfailing integrity, amply deserving of a British critic’s description of her as ‘one of the most substantial composers these islands have yet produced’.
For many, the name of Anglo-Irish composer Elizabeth Maconchy (1907–94) is completely unknown. In others, her name sparks some faint recollection, namely in connection to the musicians and composers she came into contact with, or in reference to her cycle of thirteen string quartets for which she remains best known.
Mar 3, 2024 · Tom Service surveys the 13 extraordinary string quartets of Elizabeth Maconchy - the greatest 20th-century British composer you've probably never heard of. Show more.
The first full-length biographical study of ElizabethMaconchy (1907-1994). The British-born Irish composer(Dame) Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994) is best known to...
