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Lädt ... Impressions that remained : memoirs (Original 1919; 1920. Auflage)von Ethel Smyth
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Ethel Smyth was determined to become a composer, and succeeded in writing operas, works for piano, chamber music, and orchestral music. Hearing loss eventually ended her composing career, but then she discovered an interest in literature and wrote a series of successful autobiographical works. She was also involved in Women's Suffrage, and had many passionate love affairs, mostly with women. Impressions That Remain is one of her memoirs of her eventful life. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Fortunately Ethel Smyth is as good a writer and biographer as she was a composer and this little volume is filled to capacity with fascinating accounts of her relationships with some of history’s most fascinating names.
Not to say that the stories of her life minus the more recognizable names are nothing short of unforgettable. There’s the fight that she put up to get her father to send her to music school, her early academic life and career in Liepzig Germany and her modest success in music of the day, in spite of being the only woman pursuing a career in the field. Then there’s her work as a suffragette and the act of vandalism with a brick through a window that saw her charged and imprisoned at Holloway during which she was to write the unforgettable anthem of the movement, the March of the Women. Sir Thomas Beecham visited her in prison to find her teaching her fellow inmates the song, enthusiastically conducting the choir with a toothbrush. A later story has a reporter visiting her post release from prison at home for an interview to find that she had tied herself to a tree to practice conducting without moving her body so as to become more subtle a conductor.
In addition to the suffragette anthem Smyth wrote some six operas (including the Wreckers which seems to have been dusted off in recent years and is enjoying a new audience on both sides of the Atlantic) and a Mass in the key of D that is quite unforgettable and which places her amongst the most competent of her contemporaries. And they included Brahms, Schumann (and his wife Clara) and Grieg. Her circle and many of the stories in Impressions that Remained included Emeline Pankhurst, the empress Eugénie and Virginia Woolf. This little book is not easy to find, but if you do, you will be tempted to lock yourself up and read it in one sitting!
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