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Four with Scores - Quartet with Leah Broad
One of the most anticipated music biographies in 2023 has been Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World, a wonderfully vivid account of the lives, times and music of four extraordinarily talented composers from the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Guiding me through the fascinating world of Dame Ethel Smyth, Rebecca Clarke, Dorothy Howell, and Doreen Carwithen was the book's author, Dr Leah Broad.
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This book resurrects the forgotten voices of four women: Ethel Smyth, Rebecca Clarke, Dorothy Howell, and Doreen Carwithen. In their time, these women were celebrities, composing some of the century's most popular music, but today they are ghostly presences, surviving only as footnotes to male contemporaries. This biography recounts their lives of rebellion, heartbreak and ambition, and celebrates their musical masterpieces.
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