Avril Coleridge-Taylor
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Avril Coleridge-Taylor (Born in South Norwood, London, on 8 March 1903. Died 21 December 1998) was an English pianist, conductor, and composer.The daughter of composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, she wrote her first composition, Goodbye Butterfly, at the age of twelve. Later, she won a scholarship for composition and piano at Trinity College of Music in 1915, where she was taught by Gordon Jacob and Alec Rowley.[1] In 1933 she made her debut as a conductor at the Royal Albert Hall. She was then the first female conductor of the H.M.S. Royal Marines and a frequent guest conductor of the BBC Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra. She was the founder and conductor of both the Coleridge-Taylor Symphony Orchestra and its accompanying musical society in the 1940’s as well as the Malcolm Sargent Symphony Orchestra. Her compositions include large-scale orchestral works, as well as songs, keyboard, and chamber music. In 1957, she wrote the Ceremonial March to celebrate Ghana’s Independence. Her other well-regarded works include a Piano Concerto in F Minor, Sussex Landscape, The Hills, To April, In Memoriam R.A.F., Wyndore (Windover) for choir and orchestra, and Golden Wedding Ballet Suite for orchestra. She also published under the pseudonym Peter Riley.
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- Cohen, Aaron (1981). International Encyclopedia of Women Composers. New York: Hamish Books & Music.
- Hixon, Donald (1993). Women in Music: An Encyclopedic Biobibliography. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow P.
- Samuel, Rhian (1995). The Norton/Grove Dictionary of Women Composers. New York: Macmillan.
- Sadie, Stanely (2001). The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. New York: Macmillan.
[edit] References
- ^ Sadie, Julie Anne and Rhian Samuel. Eds. The Norton/Grove Dictionary of Women Composers. Macmillan: New York, 1995.
[edit] Further reading
- Coleridge-Taylor, Avril. (1979) The Heritage of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor . London: Dobson P.
[edit] External links
Coleridge-Taylor on JSTOR]
