ALICE VERNE BREDT - UK
BORN 9 AUGUST
BORN 9 AUGUST
Alice Barbara Verne-Brendt (née Würm; 1864–1958) was an English piano teacher, violinist and composer. She was also an innovator of percussion bands for children in the United Kingdom.
The sixth of ten children, she was born as Alice Barbara Würm in Southampton to Bavarian professional musicians who emigrated to England in the 1850s. Her father was a music teacher specialized in zither, violin, and piano who worked as an organist, and her mother a violinist who taught her the violin from a very early age. Later in her childhood she moved to London, where she lived all her life, and there was taught piano by Robert and Clara Schumann's daughter, Marie.
Alice wanted to become a singer, but typhoid fever affected her voice. In 1893, her family anglicized their surname from Wurm to Verne, and Alice married William Brendt, an amateur musician and conductor. Both greatly contributed to the success of the piano school set up in London by her sister Mathilde Verne(1865–1936) in 1909.
Alice took over the school’s junior department, where Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, later Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, had a wedding march written especially for her. She died in London in 1958.
Source: Alice Verne Bredt Wikipedia
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Phantasie Trio by Alice Verne-Bredt
ALDONA NAWROCKA - GERMANY
BORN 9 AUGUST
BORN 9 AUGUST
Aldona Nawrocka is a composer, pianist, improviser and pedagogue. Her very diverse oeuvre includes piano works, orchestral compositions, vocal and instrumental pieces, electroacoustic music, and songs and works for children. One key field of Nawrocka’s activity is her collaboration with artists, as part of which she writes incidental music for dance and ballet productions. Nawrocka tries to approach these two media on a par, so that they are mutually complementary. In her music she often applies the open form, leaving performers significant room for improvisation.
Her works have been performed in Poland and abroad. In addition, he writes songs and songs for children and develops music for dance, theater and television.
He gives concerts as a pianist and chamber musician. She also deals with journalistic, scientific and organizational activities, takes an active part as a speaker in artistic and scientific conferences. She currently lectures at the Fr. Chopin Music University of Warsaw (FCUM). She is a member of the Polish Composer’s Union.
Source: WSM.Art and Composing Comissions
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