LILIAN ELKINGTON - UK
BORN 15 SEPTEMBER
Born in Birmingham in 1900, Lilian Elkington began to learn piano at the young age of four, and gave her first public performance at only six years old. The four works known to be by her include Out of the Mist (1921): a tone poem for orchestra, Little Hands: song, Romance, Op.1: for violin and piano, and Rhapsodie, Op.3: for violin and piano.
Elkington studied composition with Sir Granville Bantock at the Birmingham and Midland Institute School of Music. She also studied the organ and gained both the LRAM (Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music and ARCO (Associate of the Royal College of Organists). Her first compositions were heard in 1921 at Harrogate and at Bournemouth. She gave many public concerts and recitals in Birmingham and other cities in England, both as soloist in piano concertos by Beethoven, Grieg, Schumann and others, but also as an accompanist and in chamber music ensembles.
Only one of Elkington’s pieces has been commercially recorded – the short orchestral tone poem Out of the Mist, which depicts the November 1920 voyage of the Unknown Warrior on the HMS Verdun. Despite its relatively short length, the piece is wonderfully evocative and displays Elkington’s striking command of orchestral color, texture, and mood, signaling an inventive musical voice that was cut all too short by societal circumstances.
Source: British Music Collection and Bach Flip Classical
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Out of the mist by Lilian Elkington
PAQUITA MADRIGUERA - SPAIN
BORN 15 SEPTEMBER
Source: Wikipedia and Wikipedia España
BORN 15 SEPTEMBER
Francisca "Paquita" Madriguera Rodon was a Catalan pianist and composer, based for much of her adult life in Uruguay.
Francisca Madriguera was born in Igualada, Barcelona, the daughter of Enric Madriguera Haase and Francesca Rodon Canudas. Her younger brother was violinist and conductor Enric Madriguera. She was a child prodigy on piano, and studied with Enrique Granados as a girl. At age 11 she gave a concert in Madrid. At age 13 she played at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
Madriguera toured American cities in 1916 and 1917, billed as "The Mozart of Spain." A reviewer in 1916 found her "interesting though ridiculously spoiled", explaining that "she is extremely talented, possesses a powerful touch and well-developed technique, and will no doubt be one of the established artists of tomorrow." In 1917 she played at a benefit concert in New York, for the National League for Women's Service. During that same stay in the United States, she gave a joint concert with her brother in Chicago's Aeolian Theatre. She gave another recital at the Aeolian Hall in New York in 1919. Madriguera made piano roll recordings of her playing in the 1910s.
Her promising career was suspended when she married in 1922 and lived in Uruguay. In widowhood in 1932, she moved back to Spain with her three young daughters, and resumed her musical career. She married again, to fellow musician Andres Segovia, and they returned to Uruguay to live in 1937.
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Caprice Espagnol by Paquita Madriguera
Caprice Espagnol by Paquita Madriguera
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