Kathleen Dale née Richards (29 June 18953 March 1984) was an English

English people

The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...

 translator, musicologist, 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...

 and pianist

Pianist

A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers.-Choice of genres:...

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Biography

Kathleen Richards was born in England

England

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 and studied with York Bowen

York Bowen

Edwin York Bowen was an English composer and pianist. Bowen’s musical career spanned more than fifty years during which time he wrote over 160 works. As well as being a pianist and composer, Bowen was a talented conductor, organist, violist and horn player...

 and Fanny Davies

Fanny Davies

Fanny Davies was an English pianist who was particularly admired in Beethoven, Schumann, Brahms, and the early schools, but was also a very early London performer of the works of Debussy and Scriabin...

. She became Kathleen Dale by marriage to the pianist, composer and teacher Benjamin Dale

Benjamin Dale

Benjamin James Dale was an English composer and academic who had a long association with the Royal Academy of Music. Dale showed compositional talent from an early age and went on to write a small but notable corpus of works...

 in 1921. She taught music at the Matthay School from 1925-31. She was involved in broadcast concerts from 1927–31 and became a noted musicologist and composer as Kathleen Richards. Under the name Kathleen Dale, she published two books, including a biography of Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist, and one of the leading musicians of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene...

 in 1970 and a number of professional articles on music and music history. For the 'Symposium' series (edited by Gerald Abraham

Gerald Abraham

Gerald Ernest Heal Abraham, CBE, FBA was an English musicologist; he was President of the Royal Musical Association, 1970-74.- Career :* Assistant Editor, Radio Times, 1935–39* Deputy Editor, The Listener, 1939–42...

) she wrote chapters on the keyboard music of Handel, Schubert, Schumann and Grieg. She produced a study of the works of Ethel Smyth

Ethel Smyth

Dame Ethel Mary Smyth, DBE was an English composer and a leader of the women's suffrage movement.- Early career :...

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Works

Selected works include:

• Pastoral (1916)
• Six Duets
• Armies in the Fire
• Music for piano Op. 22 (Sprite - Starry Silence - Bells - Homage - Tambura)

Books published

• Dale, Kathleen. Nineteenth-century Piano Music. New York, Da Capo Press, 1972 (reprint from 1954)
• Dale, Kathleen. Brahms: a concertgoer's companion. London: Clive Bingley, 1970