LUCIE VELLÈRE - BELGIUM
DEATH 12 OCTOBER
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Lucie Vellère (23 December 1896 – 12 October 1966) was a Belgian composer.
Lucie Vellère was born in Brussels, and began piano lessons with her father at the age of six. She studied with Emile Chaumont for violin, Paul Miry for harmony, and Joseph Jongen for composition. She was awarded the 1957 "Prix du Brabant" and received an award from the American Section of the International Council for Women for her compositions. She made her primary living as a pharmacist and composed as a hobby.
Vellère composed works for voice, solo instruments, chamber ensembles, chorus and orchestra in a traditional style. Most of her works show impressionistic tendencies. Some exemples are: Chanson nocturne (for violin and piano) 1920; String Quartet No. 1 in d minor 1937; String Quartet No. 2 in e minor 1942; Piano Trio 1947; Fantaisie en trois mouvement (for violin and piano) 1950; String Quartet No. 3 1951; Nocturne (for cello and piano) 1954; Petite Symphony 1956 and others.
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GERALDINE THOMSON MUCHA - UK
DEATH 12 OCTOBER
DEATH 12 OCTOBER
Geraldine Thomson Mucha (5 July 1917 – 12 October 2012) was a Scottish composer.
She was born in London and studied at the Royal Academy of Music. She married the Czech writer Jiří Mucha, son of the painter Alphonse Mucha, and in 1945 moved to Prague. She lived there for the greater part of the next sixty years.
Mucha was fortunate to be encouraged as a composer from an unusually early age. Before beginning her formal studies at the Royal Academy of Music she had already been privately tutored by the composer Benjamin Dale and had had her teenage compositions overseen by Arnold Bax, one of the most well known British composers of his day. So she was already familiar with the late Romantic musical style of these two influential figures.
Mucha's first encounter with Czech music had been shortly before the Second World War when she had heard the young prodigy Vitěslava Kapralová (b. 1915) conducting her own music in a concert in London (Kapralová was to become Jiří Mucha's first wife until her early death in 1940). She also heard pieces by Janáček and Martinů conducted in wartime performances by the Czech émigré Vilém Tausky (1910- 2004). Having arrived in Prague, Mucha hoped to take lessons with Vitězslav Novák (1870-1949), a distinguished composer with a definite late-Romantic approach to music. This did not happen, but in her own music Mucha continued to seek to blend her personal romantic spirit with a more modern, mid-twentieth century sound. In this she shared a similarity with her Czech contemporaries Petr Eben (1929-2007) and Luboš Fišer (1935-1999).
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