Elizabeth Maconchy

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Dame Elizabeth Maconchy DBE (b. March 19, 1907, Broxbourne, Hertfordshire - d. November 11, 1994) was an English composer, most noted for her cycle of thirteen string quartets. She began to compose at the age of six. After the First World War, her family moved to Ireland. Here she took piano lessons, but was advised by her teacher to study at the Royal College of Music, London, which she duly did from the age of sixteen. Her teachers included Arthur Alexander (piano) and Charles Wood and Ralph Vaughan Williams (musical composition). Her music developed in a way that rapidly attracted the attention of the most distinguished musicians of the day, including Sir Henry Wood, Sir Donald Tovey and Gustav Holst. Here she became interested in the contemporary music of Central Europe, particularly Bartók, Berg and Janáček. On the recommendation of Vaughan Williams, Maconchy undertook further study in Prague, where her piano concerto was premiered in 1930 by Erwin Schulhoff, the same year in which Henry Wood premiered her orchestral piece The Land, and in which she married William LeFanu (1904-1995). In 1932 Maconchy developed tuberculosis. She moved to the country lived entirely outdoors and cured herself by will-power[1]. She received a CBE in 1977. The last of her celebrated string quartets, the thirteenth (subtitled Quartetto Corto) was written in 1984. Maconchy was made a Dame of the British Empire in 1987. Known to her friends as Betty LeFanu she lived for many years in Boreha

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Elizabeth Maconchy: Nowell, Nowell, Nowell

Elizabeth Maconchy – The Complete String Quartets Vol. I

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Maconchy: Symphony for Double String Orchestra - Serenata Concertante

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Dialogue for Piano and Orchestra: II. Allegro moderato

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Maconchy, E.: Sofa (The) / The Departure [Opera]

Elizabeth Maconchy: String Quartets Vol. 2

Maconchy: Overture, Symphony for Double String Orchestra, Serenata Concertante for Violin and Orchestra, Music for Strings

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Christmas Carols

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Five Sketches: III. Andantino

Elizabeth Maconchy – The Complete String Quartets Vol. 3

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In Fountain Court

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Christmas Music From King's

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