Ethel Smyth
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. Smyth was involved in the suffrage movement and spent time in Holloway Prison for breaking windows. She also composed the suffragette anthem The March of the Women.
Genre: british-modern-classical, victorian-britain
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Top Tracks
- Mass in D for soloists, chorus, orchestra and organ: Kyrie
- Mass in D for soloists, chorus, orchestra and organ: Credo
- Mass in D for soloists, chorus, orchestra and organ: Gloria
- Mass in D for soloists, chorus, orchestra and organ: Agnus Dei
- Mass in D for soloists, chorus, orchestra and organ: Benedictus
- Mass in D for soloists, chorus, orchestra and organ: Sanctus
- String Quartet in E Minor, Op. 1: II. Allegro molto leggiero
- II. Scherzo. Allegro grazioso
- The March of the Women (Excerpt: Last Two Verses)
- The March of the Women (Excerpt: Last Two Verses)
- Sonata in A Minor, Op. 5, III. Allegro vivace e grazioso
- Sonata in A Minor, Op. 5, II. Adagio non troppo
- Sonata in A Minor, Op. 5, I. Allegro moderato
- Overture (remix 1930)
- When the sun is setting (remix 1916)
- The first thing to do (remix 1916)
- Oh dear if I had known (remix 1916)
- What if I were young again (remix 1916)
- Contrariness (remix 1916)
- A friend and I (remix 1916)
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