PRINCESS NATALIA IVANOVNA DE KUKARINA - RUSSIA
BORN 2 JULY
BORN 2 JULY
Princess Kurakina was born in 1766 into a wealthy, upper class family and as a young child, she was considered to be somewhat of a musical Protégé recognized for being talented at playing the guitar and the harp. Princess Natalia Ivanova Kurakina was also very talented and highly respected female composer in St. Petersburg, Russia. She is said to have been the second most prominent male or female composer in 17th century Russia. In 1783, at 16, she married Prince Aleksei Borisovich Kurakin, who became Procurator General, which was one of the highest government positions in all of Russia. Through her marriage she became a noblewoman, where she lived in the court of Tsar Paul 1 and became heavily involved in country music, which also allowed her access to the upper class/intellectual thinkers in Russia at the time.
Princess Kurakina represents the rise of the intellectual level of women during 18th century Russia and their presence in the salons. She was also a pioneer because she really paved the road, so to speak for other Russian women composers to put their work out there. In addition, she used her musical talent to put her into the center of Russian salons and the intellectual social scene:Princess Kurakina was a critical female figure in the development of Russian social life, so much so,that, in 1797, she was pronounced as a Dame of Lesser Cross of the order of St. Catherine, which was an award bestowed upon women in Russia.
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Je vais donc quitter pour jamais by Natalia Ivanovna de Kukarina
Je vais donc quitter pour jamais by Natalia Ivanovna de Kukarina
MARGARET HUBICKI - UK
BORN 2 JULY
Margaret Olive "Peggy" Hubicki MBE was an English composer and teacher of musical harmony, who invented the Colour-Staff method to help people with dyslexia to read music.
Hubicki was born Margaret Mullins in Hampstead, London on 2 July 1915. Her mother was Scottish and her father English. She studied piano and composition at the Royal Academy of Music, winning the gold medal of the Worshipful Company of Musicians, and at her graduation recital in 1934 performed a sonata of her own composition.
At the Academy she met fellow-student Bohdan Hubicki, a Canadian violinist of Ukrainian descent, and they married in July 1940. Three months later Bohdan died when their house was bombed; Peggy sustained severe injuries. Thereafter she devoted much of her life to music education. She did not remarry.
Hubicki devised the Colour Staff method to help people with dyslexia to read music by using colour. "Its particularly distinctive characteristic is that it enables musical notation to be taught in a multi-sensory way". She was one of the founders of the British Dyslexia Association, and involved in the Council for Music in Hospitals.
Hubicki was Professor of Harmony at the Royal Academy of Music until she retired in 1986; her students included composer Sir John Tavener, flautist James Galway, pianist Jeremy Menuhin and singer Annie Lennox. She was also one of the first teachers, and a governor, of the Yehudi Menuhin School.
She was appointed MBE in December 1986 in recognition of her service to music in hospitals.
An album of her compositions, Dedication in Time, was released on the Chandos label in 2005 to celebrate her 90th birthday.
Margaret Olive "Peggy" Hubicki MBE was an English composer and teacher of musical harmony, who invented the Colour-Staff method to help people with dyslexia to read music.
Hubicki was born Margaret Mullins in Hampstead, London on 2 July 1915. Her mother was Scottish and her father English. She studied piano and composition at the Royal Academy of Music, winning the gold medal of the Worshipful Company of Musicians, and at her graduation recital in 1934 performed a sonata of her own composition.
At the Academy she met fellow-student Bohdan Hubicki, a Canadian violinist of Ukrainian descent, and they married in July 1940. Three months later Bohdan died when their house was bombed; Peggy sustained severe injuries. Thereafter she devoted much of her life to music education. She did not remarry.
Hubicki devised the Colour Staff method to help people with dyslexia to read music by using colour. "Its particularly distinctive characteristic is that it enables musical notation to be taught in a multi-sensory way". She was one of the founders of the British Dyslexia Association, and involved in the Council for Music in Hospitals.
Hubicki was Professor of Harmony at the Royal Academy of Music until she retired in 1986; her students included composer Sir John Tavener, flautist James Galway, pianist Jeremy Menuhin and singer Annie Lennox. She was also one of the first teachers, and a governor, of the Yehudi Menuhin School.
She was appointed MBE in December 1986 in recognition of her service to music in hospitals.
An album of her compositions, Dedication in Time, was released on the Chandos label in 2005 to celebrate her 90th birthday.
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