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Composers of the week: From 20 to 26 June

Friday, 26 June 2020

Donne 365 celebrates women composers everyday!

Every Friday in 2020 we will post the composers from the last 7 days. In these posts, you can also find the link to the composers we presented in 2019.

Check here the composers from this week (20 to 26 June) and learn more about these amazing women who made/are making history in music!

JUNE 20

MAILIS GULLIN - SWEDEN

Born 20 June

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JEANNE SINGER - USA

Death 20 June

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JUNE 21

CHARLOTTE VON SACHSEN MEININGEN/VON PREUSSEN - GERMANY

Born 21 June

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JUTA PRANULYTE - LITHUANIA

Born 21 June

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JUNE 22

RUTH ZECHLIN - GERMANY

Born 22 June

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KRISTIN BOLSTAD - NORWAY

Born 22 June

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JUNE 23

LESLEY BARBER - CANADA

Born 23 June

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JENNIFER THOMAS - USA

Born 23 June

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JUNE 24

ALICIA ANN SPOTTISWOODE - UK

Born 24 June

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RUTH SHAW WYLIE - USA
Born 24 June

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JUNE 25

PATRICIA VAN NESS - USA

Born 25 June

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ANA PAOLA SANTILLÁN ALCOCER - MEXICO

Born 25 June

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MAY 26

BUN-CHING LAM - CHINA

Born 26 June

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MARY RODGERS - USA
Death 26 June

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.Composers of the day

Composers of the day: June 25

Thursday, 25 June 2020

COMPOSERS OF THE DAY:

JUNE 25

PATRICIA VAN NESS - USA

Born 25 June

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ANA PAOLA SANTILLÁN ALCOCER - MEXICO

Born 25 June

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.Album of the Week

Album of the week #22: Mass in D Major & Overture to "the Wreckers"

Wednesday, 24 June 2020

Check out our new ALBUM OF THE WEEK!

This week's choice is very special - let's celebrate PRIDE MONTH together:

Mass in D Major & Overture to "the Wreckers",

by Ethel Smyth

Dame Ethel Smyth (1858-1944) was an English composer and member of the women's suffrage movement. She composed several pieces for piano, chamber music, orchestral works, choral works, and operas.

She had several romantic relationships in her life, most of them with women and described her sexuality as an "Everlasting puzzle".

In recognition of her work and compositions, she was awarded a damehood - and she was the first female composer to win this honor.

Read more about her here

We invite you to listen and share this album - because equality should be celebrated EVERYDAY!

Happy listening!

About the album:

Ethel Smyth was one of England’s foremost Victorian composers, and a prominent suffragette. She was the first female composer to be honoured with a Damehood. She studied composition with Carl Reineke in Leipzig (alongside Dvorák, Grieg and Tchaikovsky) and then privately with Heinrich von Herzogenberg (who introduced her to Brahms and Clara Schumann). Her Mass in D is her only large-scale religious work, although it was certainly composed for the concert hall rather than the church. Scored for 4 soloists, choir, and orchestra, the Mass in D sets the usual six parts of the mass, but is performed with the Gloria at the end, not second, at the instruction of the composer. Her opera The Wreckers, set in mid-eighteenth-century Cornwall, is considered by some critics to be the ‘most important English opera composed during the period between Purcell and Britten’. The Overture sets the scene wonderfully, as well as introducing the main thematic material to follow.

Source: High Res Audio