Agnes Tyrrell was a Czech-born pianist and composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

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Biography

Agnes Tyrrell was born in Brno

Brno

Brno by population and area is the second largest city in the Czech Republic, the largest Moravian city, and the historical capital city of the Margraviate of Moravia. Brno is the administrative centre of the South Moravian Region where it forms a separate district Brno-City District...

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Moravia

Moravia is a historical region in Central Europe in the east of the Czech Republic, and one of the former Czech lands, together with Bohemia and Silesia. It takes its name from the Morava River which rises in the northwest of the region...

. She was the daughter of English teacher Henry Tyrrell and his wife Josefine Kotulan. She performed in her first recital at age nine, and attended the Conservatory in Vienna

Vienna

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 at age sixteen. She studied composition under Otto Ritzler and published her first compositions in 1872. Tyrrell became one of the few women to compose symphony works before 1900. Tyrrell died in Brno at the age of thirty-five.

Works

Tyrrell composed over three hundred works for solo instrument, orchestra, chamber ensemble and voice. Selected works include:

• Andante, op. 6
• Theme and Variations in F Major, op. 8
• Nocturno, op. 16
• Etudes, op. 48
• Grand Sonata, op. 66
• String quartet in G Major for chamber ensemble
• Symphony in C Major for orchestra
• Mazurka for orchestra
• Die Konige in Israel, oratorio
• Bertran de Born, opera