Helen Hopekirk was Scottish

Scotland

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-American

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 pianist and composer who lived and worked in Boston

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. She was born near Edinburgh

Edinburgh

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, Scotland

Scotland

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, and studied with G. Lichtenstein and Scottish composer Alexander Mackenzie

Alexander Mackenzie

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. She later studied composition with Carl Reinecke

Carl Reinecke

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 in Leipzig

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 and Theodor Leschetizky in Vienna

Vienna

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. She made successful debuts in Leipzig and London

London

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 and began regular concert tours of Europe

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 and America

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.

She settled in Boston in 1897 at the invitation of George Chadwick, and took a teaching position at the New England

New England

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 Conservatory, later becoming an American citizen.

Works

Hopekirk composed works for piano, violin and orchestra and wrote songs and piano pieces. She often incorporated Scottish folk melodies. Selected works include:

• Piano Concerto in D major
• Serenata
• Blows the wind to-day (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson)
• Eilidh my Fawn (in Five Songs) (Text: William Sharp)
• From the Hills of Dream (in Six Poems by Fiona Macleod) (Text: William Sharp)
• Hushing song (in Five Songs) (Text: William Sharp)
• Mo-lennav-a-chree (in Five Songs) (Text: William Sharp)
• On bonnie birdeen (in Six Poems by Fiona Macleod) (Text: William Sharp)
• Requiescat (Text: Matthew Arnold)
• Sag ich ließ sie grüßen (in Five Songs) (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG ITA
• St. Bride's lullaby (in Six Poems by Fiona Macleod) (Text: William Sharp)
• The Bandruidh (in Five Songs) (Text: William Sharp)
• The bird of Christ (in Six Poems by Fiona Macleod) (Text: William Sharp)
• The lonely hunter (in Six Poems by Fiona Macleod) (Text: William Sharp)
• The sea hath its pearls (in Five Songs) (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow after Heinrich Heine)
• There was an ancient monarch (in Five Songs) (Text: after Heinrich Heine)
• Thy dark eyes to mine (in Five Songs) (Text: William Sharp)
• When the dew is falling (in Six Poems by Fiona Macleod) (Text: William Sharp)

External Links

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