Elizabeth Masson was an English

English people

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 mezzo-soprano singer and composer. She was born in Scotland

Scotland

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 and studied singing with Mrs. Henry Smart and Giuditta Pasta

Giuditta Pasta

Giuditta Angiola Maria Costanza Pasta , born in Saronno, Italy, was a soprano considered among the greatest of opera singers, to whom the 20th-century soprano Maria Callas was compared.-Studies and career:...

 in Italy

Italy

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. She made her debut at Ella's Second Subscription concert in 1831, and sang regularly at Philharmonic Society Concerts. She later worked as a singing teacher and composed songs, publishing a collection. She founded the Royal Society of Female Musicians in 1839, and died in London.

Works

Selected works include:

• Ah, love was never yet without the pang (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron)
• Stars of the summer night (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)