Ethel Smyth

Ethel Smyth

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About Ethel Smyth

Dame Ethel Mary Smyth, DBE (23 April 1858 – 8 May 1944) was an English composer and a leader of the women's suffrage movement. She was born in London. J H Smyth, her father, was a Major-General in the Royal Artillery. She was one of eight siblings two of whom were male, the rest girls. Her family was opposed to her making a career in music. She studied with Alexander Ewing when she was seventeen and took an interest in Wagner and Berlioz. [2] After a major battle with her family about it

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The Wreckers: Overture

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Sonata for Violin and Piano in A Minor, Op. 7: II. Scherzo. Allegro grazioso

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