Peggy Hubicki

Margaret Olive Hubicki MBE (2 July 1915 – 3 January 2006) was an English composer and teacher of musical harmony, who invented the Colour-Staff method to help people with dyslexia to read music. Life Hubicki was born Margaret Mullins in Hampstead, London on 2 July 1915. Her mother was Scottish and her father English. She studied piano and composition at the Royal Academy of Music with Benjamin Dale, winning the gold medal of the Worshipful Company of Musicians, and at her graduation recital in 1934 performed a sonata of her own composition. She was one of the founders of the British Dyslexia Association, and involved in the Council for Music in Hospitals. She was also one of the first teachers, and a governor, of the Yehudi Menuhin School. An album of her compositions, Dedication in Time, was released on the Chandos label in 2005 to celebrate her 90th birthday. References