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E. T. Cook

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Edgar Thomas Cook CBE D.Mus. (Cantuar) FRCO FRCM (18 March 1880 – 5 March 1953) was an English organist and composer. Biography Edgar Cook was born in Worcester, England. He was sent to the Royal Grammar School Worcester and began his career as a church organist in 1898. In 1904 he became assistant organist of Worcester Cathedral under Sir Ivor Atkins. He won an Organ Scholarship to The Queen’s College, Oxford where he studied music and obtained his MMus. In 1909 he became organist of Southwark Cathedral in which position he remained until his death in 1953. He was the cathedral’s first organist. He was one of the first organists to broadcast on radio and he became famous for his lunchtime concerts broadcast on the BBC in the 1930s and 1940s. He was awarded the prestigious Lambeth degree of DMus (Cantuar) by the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1936 and was created Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1949. He composed choral and organ works including an Evening Service in G. Amongst other honours he was a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists, becoming vice-president, and Professor of Music and Fellow of the Royal College of Music. He died in 1953 shortly before the

Eta Tyrmand

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Eta Moiseyevna Tyrmand (; ; February 23, 1917 – April 29, 2008 ) was a Belarusian composer. Life and career Eta Tyrmand was born in Warsaw. She graduated from the Warsaw Conservatory in choral performance in 1938, and from the Belarusian State Conservatory in classical piano and composition in 1952. She located in Minsk in 1939, and during World War II lived in Frunze. She taught for nearly 40 years at the Belarusian State Conservatory where she trained several generations of highly accomplished musicians. References

Ethel Barns

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Ethel Barns (5 December 1873 – 31 December 1948) was an English violinist, pianist and composer. She was born in London and entered the Royal Academy of Music at as a teenager, where she studied with Emile Sauret for violin, Ebenezer Prout for composition and Frederick Westlake for piano. Barns made her debut as a violinist at The Crystal Palace in London in 1896, and toured in England and the United States. While on tour, Barns sometimes accompanied prominent opera singer, Adelina Patti. Barns was a member of the first council of the Society of Women Musicians, which was founded in 1911. Barns became a professor at the Royal Academy of Music and died in Maidenhead on 31 December 1948. Early life and career Barns was born in London in the year 1874 (some sources inaccurately list 1880 as her birth year). and Crystal Palace in 1896. *Hindoo Lament (Chanson indienne) (1908) *Concertück (1908) * L’Escarpolette (Swing Song) for violin and piano (1908) *Swing Song And Other Forgotten Treasures By Ethel Barns, Nancy Schechter (violin) and Cary Lewis (piano). Aca Digital (2005) *Idylle. May Mukle, cello; George Falkenstein, piano. Victor Matrix B-15880, 13 April 1915 *Romance and Reverie:

Ethel Edith Bilsland

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Ethel Edith Bilsland (20 January 1892 – 2 November 1982) was an English composer, soprano and pianist. Born in Plumstead, Kent, she was the younger daughter of James Bilsland and Mary Ann Moore. She was already performing and composing by 1911. Mackenzie conducted a performance of her Adagio and Scherzo for piano and orchestra at the Queen’s Hall in June 1912. In 1912 she won the Charles Lucas Medal, awarded for the finale of her Symphony. Three years later a Serenade for string quartet and piano was reviewed in The Music Student. And in 1915 her music was included in a Society of Women Composers concert of chamber music, alongside music by Katherine Eggar, Liza Lehmann and Marion Scott. In 1920 she married Walter Baley, proprietor of the Lord Derby public house opposite Woolwich Arsenal in Plumstead. They had two children, Margaret (1926 – 2006) and John (1928 – 2021). She continued to develop her own career after her marriage: for instance, she performed as a singer in the 1923 Proms season, and for the 1925/6 season was signed by agents Ibbs and Tillett. However, in 1932 her husband died and she had to support the upbringing of her children alone, leaving little time for composi

Ethel Leginska

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Ethel Liggins (13 April 188626 February 1970) was a British pianist, conductor and composer. A student of Theodor Leschetizky, she became widely known as the ‘Paderewski of woman pianists’ and (from 1923) established herself as one of the first female conductors. She studied composition with Rubin Goldmark and Ernest Bloch, and conducting with Eugene Goossens, Robert Heger and Gennaro Papi and conducted many of the world’s leading orchestras from the mid-1920s. She was a pioneer of women’s opportunity in music performance, composition and conducting. Education and marriage Ethel Liggins was born in Hull, Yorkshire, England, to Thomas and Annie Peck Liggins. She made her debut as a pianist in London in 1902 at the age of 16. and from 1906 performed in Europe under the stage name Ethel Leginska, at the suggestion of British socialite Lady Maud Warrender (the wife of Sir George Warrender). At that time the best top-class musicians were Polish, hence the Polish-sounding name “Leginska” considered advantageous to the development of the young pianist musical career. In 1907 Leginska married the composer Emerson Whithorne, whom she had met when they both studied in Vienna. They would some

Ethel Mary Boyce

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Ethel Mary Boyce (5 October 1863 – 3 March 1936) was an English composer, pianist and teacher. Boyce was born and resided in Chertsey, Surrey, daughter of Justice of the peace George Boyce (1832–1914). She studied piano at the Royal Academy of Music with Walter Cecil Macfarren and composition with Francis William Davenport. The prizes she won include the Cipriani Potter Exhibition Prize and the Sterndale Bennett Prize for piano playing (both in 1866) and the Charles Lucas Medal for composition in 1889. In 1890 she was appointed associate of the Royal Academy, becoming a composition teacher in 1891, when she gave up public performances as a pianist. Boyce was at one time the fiancée of Edward German, but the engagement was broken off and German never married. She played piano duets with Dora Bright, including a concert performance of Bright’s Variations on an Original Theme of Sir G. A. Macfarren, named for George Alexander Macfarren, their teacher’s brother. Her compositions include an orchestral March in E (1889), the Introduction and Rondo for piano, violin and cello (which won her the Lucas prize, also in 1889), eight pieces for violin and piano (published by Novello) and variou

Ethel R. Harraden

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Ethel Rosalie Glover (; 1857–1917) was an English pianist, composer and music critic. Life Ethel Rosalie Harraden was born in Islington, Middlesex, England, in 1857, the daughter of Rosalie and Samuel Harraden, a London/Calcutta agent, and studied at the Royal Academy of Music. After completing her studies, she worked as a pianist and composer. She married Frank Glover and settled in Leamington Spa. Harraden became interested in composing for the stage, sometimes collaborating with her brother Herbert Harraden. She reviewed for the Leamington Spa Courier, a newspaper owned by her husband. Ethel was the third of six children, including her youngest sister Beatrice Harraden (born in 1864), who became a novelist known for “Ships that Pass in the Night.” Grandchildren: Norah Rigby Childs nee Glover She died on 5 January 1917 at Leamington Spa. Works Harraden composed mostly ballads and stage music. Her works include: *Two Melodies *Tristesse for Cello and Piano (1886, Schott Music) * I go to prove my soul (Text: Robert Browning) (c. 1884) *The Rainy Day (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) *Pearl, cantata *His Last Chance, operetta (1890) *The Lady in Pink, operetta (1891) *The Taboo, op

Ethel Scarborough

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Frances Ethel Scarborough (10 January 1880 – 9 December 1956) was an English pianist, composer, conductor and later a politician. Among her compositions were a Symphony, three piano concertos, solo piano music, choral music and songs. Education She was born in Crouch End,London, the third of seven children of Walter Scarborough, a timber merchant, and his wife Matilda. She studied piano with Oscar Beringer at the Royal Academy of Music, but shifted her focus to composition and began studying at Guildhall School of Music and Drama. In 1906, while studying there, Scarborough’s Piano Concerto in C minor was performed in a concert. One newspaper reported that “in the opinion of the principal of the school, the piece is of exceptional merit”. In 1907 and in 1908 she conducted her own compositions at similar student concerts. She later studied composition and orchestration as a private pupil of Charles Villiers Stanford. In 1907 she was awarded the Worshipful Company of Musicians’ silver medal. Composer and conductor A Symphony, dated 1909, is mentioned in some sources but there is no record of any performance. But in 1912 she conducted the Brighton Municipal Orchestra in a performance o

Ethel Smyth

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Dame Ethel Mary Smyth (; 22 April 18588 May 1944) was an English composer and a member of the women’s suffrage movement. Her compositions include songs, works for piano, chamber music, orchestral works, choral works and operas. Smyth tended to be marginalised as a “woman composer”, as though her work could not be accepted as mainstream. the fourth of eight children. While 22 April is the actual date of her birth, Smyth habitually stated it was 23 April, the day that was celebrated by her family, as they enjoyed the coincidence with William Shakespeare’s. Her father, John Hall Smyth, who was a major general in the Royal Artillery, was very much opposed to her making a career in music. The home of her early years was Sidcup Place in Sidcup, then in Kent. From 1867 her family base was Frimhurst, near Frimley Green; from 1894 she lived at One Oak, also in Frimley, before moving in 1910 to Hook Heath on the outskirts of Woking. Her youngest brother was Robert (“Bob”) Napier Smyth (1868–1947), who rose to become a Brigadier in the British Army. Musical career Smyth was a child prodigy. She was a stellar pianist at a very young age and was able to compose her first hymn by the age of 10.

Ethel Tench Rogers

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Ethel Tench Rogers (February 21, 1914 – January 25, 2008) was a prolific American composer who published over 200 sacred and pedagogical compositions for organ, piano, synthesizer and voice. Rogers was born in Newark, New Jersey, to Walter and Herrine Tench. She studied music with William Ichor, Arthur B. Kellsey, Tsuyi Matsuki, Lorrene McClintock, Edward J. McGinley, Howard Savage, and at the Austrian-American Institute in Vienna. She married Robert W. Rogers in 1934 and they had a son and a daughter. Rogers taught piano and organ in Plainfield, New Jersey, and at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. A Rogers Music Scholarship has been established at Baker University (Kansas). She often collaborated with Olive Nelson Russell: *MELODIES AND SCALES in the most used keys by Ethel Tench Rogers and Olive Nelson Russell For all organs Westbury 62 books of organ works; over 150 anthems; and works for two pianos. References

Ethelbert Nevin

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Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin (November 25, 1862 – February 17, 1901) was an American pianist and composer. Early life Nevin was born on November 25, 1862, at Vineacre, on the banks of the Ohio River, in Edgeworth, Pennsylvania. There he spent the first sixteen years of his life, and received all his schooling, most of it from his father, Robert Peebles Nevin, editor and proprietor of a Pittsburgh newspaper, and a contributor to many magazines. (Robert Nevin also composed several campaign songs, among them the popular “Our Nominee,” used in the day of James K. Polk’s candidacy.) Nevin’s mother, Elizabeth Duncan Oliphant, was a pianist. The first grand piano ever taken across the Allegheny Mountains was carted over for Nevin’s mother. Other members of the Nevin family showed musical inclinations as well; Nevin’s younger brother, Arthur, also achieved some renown as a composer, as did his cousins George and Gordon Balch Nevin. Musical education From a young age, Nevin was musically inclined. He began playing the piano by the age of four, although he needed cushions piled on the pedals to enable him to reach them. Nevin’s father provided for his son both vocal and instrumental instruction.

Étienne Moulinié

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Étienne Moulinié (10 October 1599 – 1676) was a French Baroque composer. He was born in Languedoc, and when he was a child he sang at the Narbonne Cathedral. Through the influence of his brother Antoine (died 1655), Moulinié gained an appointment at court, as the director of music for Gaston d’Orléans, the younger brother of King Louis XIII. For this post he wrote sacred and secular music, for voice or voices and lute or continuo. He also wrote music to accompany the ballet or other dances. He taught Gaston’s daughter, Mlle de Montpensier. Moulinié worked for Gaston until the latter’s death in 1660, at which point he was forced to find new employment. For this he returned to his birthplace of Languedoc. Moulinié wrote in the genres of airs de cour and airs à boire. His airs de cour are strophic and syllabic, but generally freer than others in the genre. His works were printed in a number of different forms (for voices alone and voice with continuo), and many were changed into sacred texts for use in church, although he also wrote other pieces which were religious from the start. His work may have been influenced by music of other countries, including the dance music of Spain and It

Étienne Ozi

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Étienne Ozi (9 December 1754 – 5 October 1813) was a French bassoonist and composer. He is known for his concertos, symphonies concertantes, and pedagogical pieces. His works were influential in the development of the bassoon and remain a staple of the classical bassoon repertoire. Ozi’s Nouvelle Méthode de basson (1803) was regarded as one of the first complete instructional materials for the bassoon, which was at the time still seven-keyed, as compared to the far more complex modern instrument. The technical demands of Ozi’s literature spurred on its development; instrument maker Carl Almenräder in particular used his compositions to direct further development of the bassoon in his development of the key mechanism. The Méthodes were adopted by the early Paris Conservatory as a course of study, containing “detailed principles for the study of the bassoon, exercises in all keys with bass accompaniment, twelve sonatas of progressive difficulty, thirty scale variations and forty-two caprices. It also includes instructions on caring for the instrument, and methods of making the reeds.” Born in Nîmes, Ozi received his early musical experience from a military ensemble, but settled in Pa

Étienne Richard

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Étienne Richard (c. 1621 – 1669) was a French composer, organist and harpsichordist. Very little is known about his life and work. He was born in Paris and came from a family of organists; apparently he lived and worked in Paris all his life. From 1645 he and his brother Charles were organists to Chancellor Séguier. In 1651 he succeeded his father as organist of the Church of Saint-Nicolas-des-Champs in Paris, working together with Nicolas Gigault. In 1652 Etienne lost both his brother and his father. The same year he succeeded the former as organist of Saint-Jacques-de-la-Boucherie, and three years later, in 1655, he took his father’s position at Saint-Martin-des-Champs. His career soared by the end of the 1650s, and in 1657 he was employed as harpsichordist and teacher to the King. He also played viola and served as violist to the King’s brother. Richard died in Paris in 1669, possibly in May. Although he was exceptionally well regarded at the court, only a few works by Richard survive (and some could be attributed to Charles, Pierre, or another member of either of the two Richard families of musicians that were active in Paris at the time The organ preludes successfully combine

Étienne-Joseph Floquet

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Étienne-Joseph Floquet (23 November 174810 May 1785) was a French composer, mainly of operas. He was born in Aix-en-Provence and began his career by writing church music, before moving to Paris in 1767. There, Floquet made a name for himself with the requiem he wrote for the funeral of the composer Jean-Joseph de Mondonville in 1772. Floquet’s first work for the Paris Opéra, the ballet héroïque L’union de l’amour et les arts, was a triumph, enjoying 60 performances between its premiere in September 1773 and January 1774. Floquet returned to France in 1777 to find the Parisian public was now split between the supporters of Gluck and the partisans of the Italian Niccolò Piccinni. There was little demand for operas by native French composers and Floquet struggled to have his tragédie lyrique Hellé staged. Floquet had more success with the lighter Le seigneur bienfaisant and La nouvelle Omphale. He turned to a tragic subject once more when he produced a new musical score for Philippe Quinault’s libretto Alceste, originally set by Jean-Baptiste Lully in 1674. Floquet’s version was rehearsed but then rejected by the Paris Opéra. The composer was in poor health and the disappointment at h

Etilmon J. Stark

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Etilmon “Til” Justus Stark (May 1867 – January 1, 1962) was an American ragtime composer and arranger, the eldest son of ragtime publisher John Stark. His best-known works include the pieces “Trombone Johnsen” (1902), “Billiken Rag” (1913), and “Gum Shoe” (1917), and the arrangements for the collection “Fifteen Standard High Class Rags” (1912), popularly known as “The Red Back Book”. Biography Stark was born in May 1867, in Gosport, Indiana, though his birth date is sometimes erroneously cited as 1868. Stark moved to Missouri with his family in his youth. In 1885, his father, who previously had been a farmer and ice cream store proprietor, took the family to Sedalia, Missouri, and opened a music store, John Stark and Son. John Stark later became a music publisher and made his fortune by publishing Scott Joplin’s The Maple Leaf Rag. All of the Stark children, including sister Eleanor and brother William were talented musically, but Stark was the one who achieved greatest success. He died in Maplewood, Missouri, on January 1, 1962. Career Stark became a music instructor, first at the Marmaduke Military Academy in Sweet Springs, Missouri. When Marmaduke burned in 1896, Stark moved to

Ettore Campogalliani

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Ettore Campogalliani (30 September 1903 – 3 June 1992) was an Italian composer, musician and teacher. Campogalliani studied piano in 1921, graduating from the Conservatory of Bologna. He then studied composition at the Conservatory of Parma in 1933. Finally he studied singing at the Conservatory of Piacenza in 1940. and as a pianist, he dedicated himself to teaching. He taught piano at the Liceo Musicale of Piacenza and singing at the conservatories of Parma and Milan. He then went on to coach vocal technique and interpretation at the opera school of La Scala in Milan. Campogalliani was the voice teacher of Renata Tebaldi, Renata Scotto, Mirella Freni, Felix Rolke (when Mirella Freni was 19 years old; himself voice teacher of a niece of Mirella Freni), Ferruccio Furlanetto, Ruggero Raimondi, Luciano Pavarotti, Carlo Bergonzi, Gino Penno, Antonio Carangelo and Giuliano Bernardi. In 1946, to honour his father Francesco, Ettore Campogalliani founded the Accademia Teatrale Francesco Campogalliani, a theatre and drama academy. Selected compositions *Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano (1932) *Sarabanda and Minuetto for piano Op. l (1934) *Sonata in e Minor for Violin and Piano *‘L’arrivo’

Ettore Perosio

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Ettore Perosio (May 10, 1868 - February 14, 1919) was an Italian composer and conductor. Perosio was a native of Genoa, the son of art critic and amateur musician Giuseppe Perosio, who had been a friend of Giuseppe Verdi. The younger Perosio studied at the Niccolò Paganini Institute in Genoa before embarking on a conducting career that took him around Italy, as well as to Spain, Portugal, and the United States. His career also took him to Buenos Aires and Montevideo, where he worked alongside soprano Eugenia Burzio. Perosio married soprano Giuseppina Falconis della Perla (née Battaglia) in 1900. He died in the city of his birth. Perosio composed five operas during his career. The first of these, premiered at Genoa’s Teatro Paganini on January 13, 1889, was Adriana Lecouvreur, to a libretto by his father; based on the same play that later inspired Francesco Cilea, this saw performance in other theaters as well. Three other stage works - Furio, to a libretto by Luigi Orsini; Scacco al re, to a libretto by E. Ducati; and Morosina - appear never to have received a performance. Besides operas, Perosio also wrote chamber music, songs, and sacred works. He also produced Apoteosi di Colomb