Kathleen Richards

Kathleen Dale née Richards (29 June 1895, London – March 3, 1984, Woking) was an English composer, pianist, musicologist and translator. She used the name Kathleen Richards for her compositions, but from 1921 used her married name Kathleen Dale for recitals, broadcasts and authorship until the end of her life. Early life and marriage Kathleen Richards was educated at St Felix School in Southwold, Suffolk. She studied piano privately with York Bowen from 1914 and later (from 1924) with Fanny Davies. She also studied composition privately with Benjamin Dale from 1914. In 1916 she performed her Pastoral with the American violinist Olga Rudge, who became a lifelong friend. York Bowen included some of her songs (sung by his wife Sylvia) in an Aeolian Hall recital on July 4, 1916, and he performed her short piano piece A Dance in Spring at the same venue on 14 March 1919. She became Kathleen Dale by marriage to her former teacher, the pianist and composer Benjamin Dale, in 1921. They sometimes performed as a piano duet. The marriage ended in separation in 1930. Composer and author As a composer, her Minuet, Gavotte and Fugue for small orchestra was included in a Patron’s Fund rehearsal a