Eleanor Rudall

Eleanor Clementine Rudall (26 April 1881 – 6 May 1960) was a composer and pianist, who after a promising start while a student at the Royal Academy of Music struggled to find more widespread recognition. She continued her career teaching piano, harmony and composition, and in 1927 became the second wife of composer Frederick Corder. She was a friend and collaborator of English composer and pianist Emma Lomax. Education and early career Rudall was born at 25 Upper Phillimore Place, Kensington (now Kensington High Street), the daughter of composer and author Henry Alexander Rudall (1837–1896) and Jane Sinclair Bails. H.A. Rudall wrote a biography in the Great Composers series on Beethoven in 1890. She studied at the Royal Academy of Music, where she won the R.A.M. Club prize for composition in 1906. Her Introduction and Allegro for string octet was played at a Royal Academy concert in 1906. Four Orchestral Illustrations (inspired by the paintings of G F Watts), were performed at a Queen’s Hall student concert on 25 June 1907. Rudall won the Charles Lucas Medal for composition in 1908 for her Suite of Three Movements for orchestra. Her orchestral Variations on an Irish Air was also pe