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Helen Hopekirk
6+ albums
Scottishlate romanticwomen composers
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Helen Hopekirk (20 May 1856 – 19 November 1945) was a Scottish pianist and composer who after the age of 40 lived and worked in Boston, Massachusetts. Helen Hopekirk was born in Portobello, Edinburgh in Scotland, a daughter of music shop owners Adam and Helen (née Croall) Hopekirk. She studied music with George Lichtenstein and Scottish composer Alexander Mackenzie, and made her debut as a soloist in 1874 with the Edinburgh Amateur Orchestral Society. After other successful performances and the death of her father, she relocated to study composition with Carl Reinecke in Leipzig. After successful debuts in Leipzig and London, she began regular concert tours of Europe. In 1882 Hopekirk married Edinburgh merchant and music critic William A. Wilson (d. 1926), who began serving as her manager. She made her American debut in 1883 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and commenced concert tours in the United States. She planned to continue her studies with Franz Liszt, but after his death studied instead with Theodor Leschetizky in Vienna and Czech composer Karel Navrátil in Prague. She and her husband lived in Vienna until 1892, and then moved to Paris, where she began to teach piano. Her students included Anna Diller Starbuck and Elna Sherman. From the early 1890s she began to devote more time to composition, producing her first large scale work, the Concertstück in D Minor for Piano and Orchestra, written in Paris in 1893–94, performing it with the Scottish Orchestra under Geor
top songs
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Suite for Piano: III. Air
1722Air (No. 3 from Suite)
7632 Tone-Pictures: II. The Seal-Woman's Sea-joy
5145 Scottish Folksongs: No. 1, Land o' the Leal
4455 Scottish Folksongs: No. 2, Turn Ye to Me
416Romance in A Minor
3775 Scottish Folksongs: No. 5, Eilidh Bhan
348Iona Memories: III. In the Ruins
3392 Tone-pictures: No. 2, The Seal-woman's Sea-joy
3210Iona Memories: II. Crònan (A Hushing Song)
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