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Avril Coleridge-Taylor
12+ albums
english20th CenturyUKbritishwomen composers
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Gwendolen Avril Coleridge-Taylor (8 March 1903 – 21 December 1998) was an English pianist, conductor, and composer. She was the daughter of composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and his wife Jessie (née Walmisley). Coleridge-Taylor wrote her first composition, "Goodbye Butterfly", at the age of 12. Later, she won a scholarship for composition and piano at Trinity College of Music in 1915, where she was taught orchestration and composition by Gordon Jacob and Alec Rowley, and conducting by Henry Wood, Ernest Read and Albert Coates. In 1933, she made her formal debut as a conductor at the Royal Albert Hall. She was the first female conductor of H.M.S. Royal Marines and a frequent guest conductor of the BBC Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra. In 1938, she was the first female conductor to conduct at the bandstand in London's Hyde Park. She was the founder and conductor of both the Coleridge-Taylor Symphony Orchestra and its accompanying musical society in 1941, intended to give employment to musicians during the depression. The orchestra at its peak consisted of more than 100 musicians made up of 70 professionals and 30 "specially selected" amateur string players, and a choir of 70 voices. She also founded the Malcolm Sargent Symphony Orchestra and the New World Singers. In 1956, Coleridge-Taylor arranged and conducted the spirituals performed in a BBC radio version of Marc Connelly's 1930 play The Green Pastures. In 1957, she wrote her Ceremonial March for Ghana's indepe
top songs
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Sussex Landscape: II. Lento e molto tranquillo
1552Sussex Landscape, Op. 27: I. Largo
1323Sussex Landscape, Op. 27: II. Lento e molto tranquillo
1204Sussex Landscape, Op. 27: III. Largo - Maestoso
1125Piano Concerto in F Minor: II. Adagio
926In Memoriam - To the R.A.F.
857Who knows?
658Piano Concerto in F Minor: I. Allegro maestoso
289Sussex Landscape: I. Largo
2610Can sorrow find me?
23albums
Avril Coleridge-Taylor: Piano Concerto & Orchestral Works
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Piano Concerto in F Minor: II. Adagio
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In Memoriam - To the R.A.F.
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Avril Coleridge-Taylor: Who knows?
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Coleridge-Taylor
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Piano Concerto & Orchestral Works
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Who Knows? (1922) (Arr. for Violoncello and Piano)
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Can Sorrow Find Me? (1938) (Arr. for Violoncello and Piano)
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Sussex Landscape op. 27 (1936)
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Sussex Landscape
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BBC Proms: 2024
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Who Knows? (1922) (Arr. for Violoncello and Piano) (Alexandra Mackenzie)