Ethel Rosalie Harraden (b. 1857 d. 1917) was an English

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 pianist, composer and music critic. She was born in Islington

Islington

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, Middlesex

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, England

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, in 1857, the daughter of Samuel Harraden, a London

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/Calcutta agent, and studied at the Royal Academy of Music

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. After completing her studies, she worked as a pianist and composer. She married Frank Glover and settled in Leamington Spa

Leamington Spa

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. 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. She died in 1917 at age sixty at Leamington Spa, England.

Works

Harraden composed mostly ballads and stage music. Selected works include:

• Two Melodies
• 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, opera fantastie (1895)

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