Poldowski
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Poldowski was the professional pseudonym of a Belgian
-born British
composer and pianist born Régine Wieniawski (16 May 187928 January 1932), the daughter of the Polish
violinist and composer Henryk Wieniawski
. Some of her early works were published under the name Irène Wieniawska. She married Sir Aubrey Dean Paul, 5th Baronet (1869-1961), becoming Lady Dean Paul. Her name appears in a number of forms:
, where her father, the Polish virtuoso violinist and composer Henryk Wieniawski
, had earlier settled on his appointment as a professor of the Brussels Conservatory. Her mother was an Englishwoman, Isabelle Bessie-Hampton, the niece of the Irish pianist and composer George Osborne
(who studied under Johann Peter Pixis
, François-Joseph Fétis
and Friedrich Kalkbrenner
and was a close friend of Frédéric Chopin
and Hector Berlioz
) and a member of a London family that had had associations with Rossini, Meyerbeer
, Jenny Lind
, Michael Balfe
and Anton Rubinstein
. She was named Régine after her paternal grandmother Regina Wolff.
It is sometimes stated that Régine was born posthumously, a few weeks after the death of her father; but this seems to be an error caused by some earlier sources stating she was born in May 1880 rather than May 1879 (her father died on 31 March 1880, in Moscow
, Russia
, while on a concert tour, when Irene was ten months old).
Her musical studies are also the subject of some uncertainty. She initially studied piano with a Miss Ellis. She told her official biographers that she entered the Brussels Conservatoire at age 12, studying piano with Pierre Storck and composition with Tordeus and François-Auguste Gevaert
. Later she continued her studies in London
with Michael Hambourg and Percy Pitt
. After her marriage she returned to Paris to study with André Gedalge
, and after her first child died she studied under Vincent d'Indy
at the Schola Cantorum
. However, some of the above is contradicted by the fact that her name does not appear in any records of the Brussels Conservatory.
In 1887, aged eight, she was introduced to and befriended by Nellie Melba
, then making her debut at La Monnaie
. In 1893, aged 14, she publicly performed some of her own compositions. She was a neighbour of Octave Maus
and her songs Cortège and Cythère were dedicated to Maus and his wife Madeleine.
In 1896, Régine Wieniawski and her mother moved to London. There she published some early works under the name Irène Wieniawska.
In 1901 she married a descendant of the 1st Duke of Marlborough
, Sir Aubrey Edward Henry Dean Paul, 5th Bt (19 October 1869-16 January 1961) to whom she had been introduced by Nellie Melba. She thus became Lady Dean Paul, and adopted British nationality, but continued to publish works as "Irène Wieniawska" They had three children:
The early death of Lady Dean Paul's first-born son devastated her and ultimately led to the breakup of her marriage. It inspired three works, the songs Soir and Berceuse d'Armorique, and the violin-piano piece Berceuse pour l'enfant mourant
She then adopted the pseudonym Poldowski. In March 1911 she returned to Brussels to take part in the concert series at "La Libre Esthétique
" organised be her old friend Octave Maus. Charles van den Borren praised her works as "notable for a rare distinction, bearing witness to a very individual personality". Gervase Elwes introduced her Paul Verlaine
songs to the English concert stage in 1912 at the Queen's Hall. These songs then had a great vogue in Paris and this performance made a deep impression. He had been impressed with her music ever since he had first encountered it almost 20 years earlier, in 1893 in Brussels. He felt they showed "great originality and for her age, great finish". Elwes encountered her again in 1903, in Brussels, and she dedicated two of her songs to him. A concert of her songs she was to have given in the United States
with Gervase Elwes in 1921 had to be cancelled when he was killed in a rail accident in Boston. Maggie Teyte
also sang Poldowski's songs. Poldowski sometimes sang her songs to her own piano accompaniment.
She moved to Brussels in the spring of 1912 after Queen Elizabeth of Belgium had expressed a desire to hear her. She accompanied Émile Chaumont in the premiere of her Violin Sonata in D minor, which was dedicated to Octave Maus, and was then performed in Paris by her close friend, the French pianist Lazare Lévy
, whom she had met in Miss Ellis's class. Lévy also premiered her piano solo piece Caledonian Market, in 1923. In January 1912 her friend Henry J. Wood conducted the premieres of her Suite miniature and Nocturnes at the Sunday Concerts. In 1913 she returned to Brussels for the last time to accompany Jane Bathori-Engel in four of her Verlaine settings.
She and her whole family converted to Roman Catholicism in 1916. In 1919, at the Queen's Hall, Henry Wood accompanied Poldowski at the premiere of her Pat Malone's Wake for piano and orchestra. She fell seriously ill in the autumn of 1913. In August 1919 Poldowski moved to the United States, where her "symphonic opera" Silence was published despite serious financial issues.
She was legally separated from her husband in 1921 after a major marital crisis in 1919.
She returned to London in 1922, and her regular visitors included the playwright Alfred Sutro
, the mezzo-soprano Marguerite d'Alvarez
, the conductor Eugène Goossens, fils
, the harpsichordist Violet Gordon-Woodhouse
, the violinist Paul Kochanski
and the composer George Gershwin
. Her 1923 series of midday recitals at the Hyde Park Hotel, known as The International Concerts of La Libre Esthétique
, attracted Arthur Rubinstein
, Jacques Thibaud
and the London String Quartet
. She also opened a fashionable haute couture
boutique where she produced several creations for the British Royal Family. On a 1925 tour of Spain, she was given a gift of a diamond bracelet by the King and Queen of Spain.
She later became seriously ill with pneumonia
, her right lung was removed, and she died of a heart attack on 28 January 1932, in London.
. She set 21 French texts of Paul Verlaine
, as well as English texts by William Blake
, William Butler Yeats
, Alfred, Lord Tennyson and others.
Her songs include:
Many of her larger works are lost. Her complete catalogue of music, including unpublished works, compiled by David Mooney, is available at SMI Music Theses Register.
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
-born British
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
composer and pianist born Régine Wieniawski (16 May 187928 January 1932), the daughter of the Polish
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
violinist and composer Henryk Wieniawski
Henryk Wieniawski
Henryk Wieniawski was a Polish violinist and composer.-Biography:Henryk Wieniawski was born in Lublin, Congress Poland, Russian Empire. His father, Tobiasz Pietruszka, had converted to Catholicism. His talent for playing the violin was recognized early, and in 1843 he entered the Paris...
. Some of her early works were published under the name Irène Wieniawska. She married Sir Aubrey Dean Paul, 5th Baronet (1869-1961), becoming Lady Dean Paul. Her name appears in a number of forms:
- Régine Wieniawski
- Irène Wieniawska
- Irene Regina Wieniawski or Wieniawska
- Lady Dean Paul
- Lady Irene Dean Paul
- Lady Irene Poldowski Paul
- (Madame) Poldowski, Poldowsky or Poldowska.
Biography
Régine Wieniawski was born on 16 May 1879 in Ixelles, BrusselsBrussels
Brussels , officially the Brussels Region or Brussels-Capital Region , is the capital of Belgium and the de facto capital of the European Union...
, where her father, the Polish virtuoso violinist and composer Henryk Wieniawski
Henryk Wieniawski
Henryk Wieniawski was a Polish violinist and composer.-Biography:Henryk Wieniawski was born in Lublin, Congress Poland, Russian Empire. His father, Tobiasz Pietruszka, had converted to Catholicism. His talent for playing the violin was recognized early, and in 1843 he entered the Paris...
, had earlier settled on his appointment as a professor of the Brussels Conservatory. Her mother was an Englishwoman, Isabelle Bessie-Hampton, the niece of the Irish pianist and composer George Osborne
George Osborne (composer)
George Alexander Osborne was an Irish composer and pianist.Osborne was born in Limerick. He left Ireland at the age of nineteen, thereafter dividing his time between England and France. While in Paris, he studied under Johann Peter Pixis, François-Joseph Fétis and Friedrich Kalkbrenner...
(who studied under Johann Peter Pixis
Johann Peter Pixis
Johann Peter Pixis was a German pianist and composer born in Mannheim, Germany.He lived in Paris between 1825 and 1845, where he worked as a concert pianist...
, François-Joseph Fétis
François-Joseph Fétis
François-Joseph Fétis was a Belgian musicologist, composer, critic and teacher. He was one of the most influential music critics of the 19th century, and his enormous compilation of biographical data in the Biographie universelle des musiciens remains an important source of information today...
and Friedrich Kalkbrenner
Friedrich Kalkbrenner
Friedrich Wilhelm Michael Kalkbrenner was a German pianist, composer, piano teacher and piano manufacturer who spent most of his life in England and France. Before the advent of Frédéric Chopin, Sigismond Thalberg and Franz Liszt, Kalkbrenner was by many considered to be the foremost pianist in...
and was a close friend of Frédéric Chopin
Frédéric Chopin
Frédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist. He is considered one of the great masters of Romantic music and has been called "the poet of the piano"....
and Hector Berlioz
Hector Berlioz
Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Grande messe des morts . Berlioz made significant contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation. He specified huge orchestral forces for some of his works; as a...
) and a member of a London family that had had associations with Rossini, Meyerbeer
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Giacomo Meyerbeer was a noted German opera composer, and the first great exponent of "grand opera." At his peak in the 1830s and 1840s, he was the most famous and successful composer of opera in Europe, yet he is rarely performed today.-Early years:He was born to a Jewish family in Tasdorf , near...
, Jenny Lind
Jenny Lind
Johanna Maria Lind , better known as Jenny Lind, was a Swedish opera singer, often known as the "Swedish Nightingale". One of the most highly regarded singers of the 19th century, she is known for her performances in soprano roles in opera in Sweden and across Europe, and for an extraordinarily...
, Michael Balfe
Michael William Balfe
Michael William Balfe was an Irish composer, best-remembered for his opera The Bohemian Girl.After a short career as a violinist, Balfe pursued an operatic singing career, while he began to compose. In a career spanning more than 40 years, he composed 38 operas, almost 250 songs and other works...
and Anton Rubinstein
Anton Rubinstein
Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein was a Russian-Jewish pianist, composer and conductor. As a pianist he was regarded as a rival of Franz Liszt, and he ranks amongst the great keyboard virtuosos...
. She was named Régine after her paternal grandmother Regina Wolff.
It is sometimes stated that Régine was born posthumously, a few weeks after the death of her father; but this seems to be an error caused by some earlier sources stating she was born in May 1880 rather than May 1879 (her father died on 31 March 1880, in Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
, Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
, while on a concert tour, when Irene was ten months old).
Her musical studies are also the subject of some uncertainty. She initially studied piano with a Miss Ellis. She told her official biographers that she entered the Brussels Conservatoire at age 12, studying piano with Pierre Storck and composition with Tordeus and François-Auguste Gevaert
François-Auguste Gevaert
François-Auguste Gevaert was a Belgian composer.His father was a baker, and he was intended for the same profession, but better counsels prevailed and he was permitted to study music. He was sent in 1841 to the Ghent Conservatory, where he studied under Edouard de Sommere and Martin-Joseph Mengal...
. Later she continued her studies in London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
with Michael Hambourg and Percy Pitt
Percy Pitt
Percy Pitt was an English organist and conductor.A native of London, Pitt studied music at the conservatory in Leipzig, also working in Munich with Josef Rheinberger...
. After her marriage she returned to Paris to study with André Gedalge
André Gedalge
André Gedalge , was an influential French composer and teacher.- Biography :André Gedalge was born at 75 rue des Saints-Pères, in Paris, where he first worked as a bookseller and editor specializing in livres de prix for public schools...
, and after her first child died she studied under Vincent d'Indy
Vincent d'Indy
Vincent d'Indy was a French composer and teacher.-Life:Paul Marie Théodore Vincent d'Indy was born in Paris into an aristocratic family of royalist and Catholic persuasion. He had piano lessons from an early age from his paternal grandmother, who passed him on to Antoine François Marmontel and...
at the Schola Cantorum
Schola Cantorum
The Schola Cantorum de Paris is a private music school in Paris. It was founded in 1894 by Charles Bordes, Alexandre Guilmant and Vincent d'Indy as a counterbalance to the Paris Conservatoire's emphasis on opera...
. However, some of the above is contradicted by the fact that her name does not appear in any records of the Brussels Conservatory.
In 1887, aged eight, she was introduced to and befriended by Nellie Melba
Nellie Melba
Dame Nellie Melba GBE , born Helen "Nellie" Porter Mitchell, was an Australian operatic soprano. She became one of the most famous singers of the late Victorian Era and the early 20th century...
, then making her debut at La Monnaie
La Monnaie
Le Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie , or the Koninklijke Muntschouwburg is a theatre in Brussels, Belgium....
. In 1893, aged 14, she publicly performed some of her own compositions. She was a neighbour of Octave Maus
Octave Maus
Octave Maus was a Belgian art critic, writer, and lawyer.Maus worked with fellow writer/lawyer Edmond Picard, and they together with Victor Arnould and Eugène Robert founded the weekly L'Art moderne in 1881....
and her songs Cortège and Cythère were dedicated to Maus and his wife Madeleine.
In 1896, Régine Wieniawski and her mother moved to London. There she published some early works under the name Irène Wieniawska.
In 1901 she married a descendant of the 1st Duke of Marlborough
John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, Prince of Mindelheim, KG, PC , was an English soldier and statesman whose career spanned the reigns of five monarchs through the late 17th and early 18th centuries...
, Sir Aubrey Edward Henry Dean Paul, 5th Bt (19 October 1869-16 January 1961) to whom she had been introduced by Nellie Melba. She thus became Lady Dean Paul, and adopted British nationality, but continued to publish works as "Irène Wieniawska" They had three children:
- Aubrey Donald Fitzwarren Severin Dean Paul (1902-04)
- Sir Brian Kenneth "Napper" Dean Paul, 6th Bt. (1904-72; an amateur muralist and opium taker, whose portrait was painted by Lucian FreudLucian FreudLucian Michael Freud, OM, CH was a British painter. Known chiefly for his thickly impasted portrait and figure paintings, he was widely considered the pre-eminent British artist of his time...
) - Brenda Irene Isabelle Dean Paul (1907-59; she became a well-known actress and "society drug addict" who was frequently arrested on charges of possession. She spent time in Holloway PrisonHolloway (HM Prison)HM Prison Holloway is a closed category prison for adult women and Young Offenders, located in the Holloway area of the London Borough of Islington, in north and Inner London, England...
. She died of a drug overdose in her flat. It has been claimed that both she and her mother were lesbianLesbianLesbian is a term most widely used in the English language to describe sexual and romantic desire between females. The word may be used as a noun, to refer to women who identify themselves or who are characterized by others as having the primary attribute of female homosexuality, or as an...
s, and that her mother was also a morphineMorphineMorphine is a potent opiate analgesic medication and is considered to be the prototypical opioid. It was first isolated in 1804 by Friedrich Sertürner, first distributed by same in 1817, and first commercially sold by Merck in 1827, which at the time was a single small chemists' shop. It was more...
addict.)
The early death of Lady Dean Paul's first-born son devastated her and ultimately led to the breakup of her marriage. It inspired three works, the songs Soir and Berceuse d'Armorique, and the violin-piano piece Berceuse pour l'enfant mourant
She then adopted the pseudonym Poldowski. In March 1911 she returned to Brussels to take part in the concert series at "La Libre Esthétique
La Libre Esthétique
La Libre Esthétique was an artistic society founded in 1893 in Brussels to continue the efforts of the artists' group Les XX dissolved the same year...
" organised be her old friend Octave Maus. Charles van den Borren praised her works as "notable for a rare distinction, bearing witness to a very individual personality". Gervase Elwes introduced her Paul Verlaine
Paul Verlaine
Paul-Marie Verlaine was a French poet associated with the Symbolist movement. He is considered one of the greatest representatives of the fin de siècle in international and French poetry.-Early life:...
songs to the English concert stage in 1912 at the Queen's Hall. These songs then had a great vogue in Paris and this performance made a deep impression. He had been impressed with her music ever since he had first encountered it almost 20 years earlier, in 1893 in Brussels. He felt they showed "great originality and for her age, great finish". Elwes encountered her again in 1903, in Brussels, and she dedicated two of her songs to him. A concert of her songs she was to have given in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
with Gervase Elwes in 1921 had to be cancelled when he was killed in a rail accident in Boston. Maggie Teyte
Maggie Teyte
Dame Maggie Teyte DBE was an English operatic soprano and interpreter of French art song.-Early years:Margaret Tate was born in Wolverhampton, England, one of ten children of Jacob James Tate, a successful wine and spirit merchant and proprietor of public houses and later lodgings. Her parents...
also sang Poldowski's songs. Poldowski sometimes sang her songs to her own piano accompaniment.
She moved to Brussels in the spring of 1912 after Queen Elizabeth of Belgium had expressed a desire to hear her. She accompanied Émile Chaumont in the premiere of her Violin Sonata in D minor, which was dedicated to Octave Maus, and was then performed in Paris by her close friend, the French pianist Lazare Lévy
Lazare Lévy
Lazare Lévy was an influential French pianist, organist, composer and pedgogue. As a virtuoso pianist he toured throughout Europe, in North Africa, Israel, the Soviet Union and Japan...
, whom she had met in Miss Ellis's class. Lévy also premiered her piano solo piece Caledonian Market, in 1923. In January 1912 her friend Henry J. Wood conducted the premieres of her Suite miniature and Nocturnes at the Sunday Concerts. In 1913 she returned to Brussels for the last time to accompany Jane Bathori-Engel in four of her Verlaine settings.
She and her whole family converted to Roman Catholicism in 1916. In 1919, at the Queen's Hall, Henry Wood accompanied Poldowski at the premiere of her Pat Malone's Wake for piano and orchestra. She fell seriously ill in the autumn of 1913. In August 1919 Poldowski moved to the United States, where her "symphonic opera" Silence was published despite serious financial issues.
She was legally separated from her husband in 1921 after a major marital crisis in 1919.
She returned to London in 1922, and her regular visitors included the playwright Alfred Sutro
Alfred Sutro
Alfred Sutro OBE was a British author and dramatist.He was a translator and friend of Maeterlinck. Educated at the City of London School and in Brussels, he began his career with a series of translations of Maeterlinck's works, all of which except the dramas he translated from the French...
, the mezzo-soprano Marguerite d'Alvarez
Marguerite d'Alvarez
Marguerite d'Alvarez was an English contralto.Born in Liverpool, d'Alvarez studied in Brussels, and made her debut in Rouen, singing Delilah. She made her first American appearances with the Manhattan Opera in 1909 as Fidès in Giacomo Meyerbeer's Le prophète...
, the conductor Eugène Goossens, fils
Eugène Goossens, fils
Eugène Goossens was a French conductor and violinist.He was born in Bordeaux, and studied in Bruges and the conservatoire in Brussels...
, the harpsichordist Violet Gordon-Woodhouse
Violet Gordon-Woodhouse
Violet Gordon-Woodhouse was an acclaimed British harpsichordist and clavichordist, highly influential in bringing both instruments back into fashion.-Family:...
, the violinist Paul Kochanski
Paul Kochanski
Paul Kochanski was a Polish violinist, composer and arranger.- Training and early career :...
and the composer George Gershwin
George Gershwin
George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist. Gershwin's compositions spanned both popular and classical genres, and his most popular melodies are widely known...
. Her 1923 series of midday recitals at the Hyde Park Hotel, known as The International Concerts of La Libre Esthétique
La Libre Esthétique
La Libre Esthétique was an artistic society founded in 1893 in Brussels to continue the efforts of the artists' group Les XX dissolved the same year...
, attracted Arthur Rubinstein
Arthur Rubinstein
Arthur Rubinstein KBE was a Polish-American pianist. He received international acclaim for his performances of the music of a variety of composers...
, Jacques Thibaud
Jacques Thibaud
Jacques Thibaud was a French violinist.Thibaud was born in Bordeaux and studied the violin with his father before entering the Paris Conservatoire at the age of thirteen. In 1896 he jointly won the conservatory's violin prize with Pierre Monteux...
and the London String Quartet
London Quartet
The London String Quartet was a string quartet founded in London in 1908 which remained one of the leading English chamber groups into the 1930s, and made several well-known recordings.-Personnel:The personnel of the London String Quartet was:1st Violin:...
. She also opened a fashionable haute couture
Haute couture
Haute couture refers to the creation of exclusive custom-fitted clothing. Haute couture is made to order for a specific customer, and it is usually made from high-quality, expensive fabric and sewn with extreme attention to detail and finished by the most experienced and capable seamstresses,...
boutique where she produced several creations for the British Royal Family. On a 1925 tour of Spain, she was given a gift of a diamond bracelet by the King and Queen of Spain.
She later became seriously ill with pneumonia
Pneumonia
Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung—especially affecting the microscopic air sacs —associated with fever, chest symptoms, and a lack of air space on a chest X-ray. Pneumonia is typically caused by an infection but there are a number of other causes...
, her right lung was removed, and she died of a heart attack on 28 January 1932, in London.
Music
Poldowski was a gifted composer of songs, and her style shows strong influences of Claude DebussyClaude Debussy
Claude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions...
. She set 21 French texts of Paul Verlaine
Paul Verlaine
Paul-Marie Verlaine was a French poet associated with the Symbolist movement. He is considered one of the greatest representatives of the fin de siècle in international and French poetry.-Early life:...
, as well as English texts by William Blake
William Blake
William Blake was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age...
, William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and playwright, and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, in his later years he served as an Irish Senator for two terms...
, Alfred, Lord Tennyson and others.
Her songs include:
Texts by Paul Verlaine
- Trois mélodies sur des poésies de Paul Verlaine
- 1. Dimanches d'avril
- 2. Bruxelles
- 3. En sourdine
- À Clymène
- A poor young shepherd
- Brume
- Circonspection
- Colombine
- Cortège
- Crépuscule du soir mystique
- Cythère
- Dansons la gigue!
- Effet de neige
- Fantoches
- Impression fausse
- L'attente
- Le faune
- L'heure exquise
- Mandoline
- Spleen
- Sur l'herbe
Other texts
- Berceuse d'Armorique (Anatole le Braz)
- Dans une musette (Marie Closset)
- Down by the Salley Gardens (William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and playwright, and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, in his later years he served as an Irish Senator for two terms...
) - La passante (her own text)
- Nocturne (des cantilènes) (Jean Moréas)
- Pannyre aux talons d'or (Albert Victor Samain)
- Sérénade (Adolphe Ratté)
- Soir (Albert Victor Samain)
Other works
Her other works include:- Silence, symphonic opera
- Laughter, operetta
- Nocturnes, orchestra
- Tenements, orchestra
- Pat Malone's Wake, piano and orchhestra
- Suite miniature de chansons à danser, wind quintet
- Caledonian Market, suite for piano
- The Hall of Machinery – Wembley, piano
- Sonatina, piano
- Study, piano
- Violin Sonata in D minor
- pieces for violin and piano such as Berceuse de l'Enfant mourant, Largo, Phryne, and Tango. (The Tango was recorded by Jascha HeifetzJascha HeifetzJascha Heifetz was a violinist, born in Vilnius, then Russian Empire, now Lithuania. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest violinists of all time.- Early life :...
.)
Many of her larger works are lost. Her complete catalogue of music, including unpublished works, compiled by David Mooney, is available at SMI Music Theses Register.
Source
- Eric BlomEric BlomEric Walter Blom CBE was a Swiss-born British-naturalised music lexicographer, musicologist, music critic, music biographer and translator. He is best known as the editor of the 5th edition of Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians .-Biography:Blom was born in Berne, Switzerland...
, Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 5th ed., 1954