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Ethel Smyth

Ethel Smyth

Born: 22nd April 1858, Sidcup, UK

Died: 8th May 1944, Woking, UK

Nationality: English

Dame Ethel Mary Smyth was an English composer and a member of the women's suffrage movement. Her compositions include songs, works for piano, chamber music, orchestral works, choral works and operas.

Smyth tended to be marginalised as a "woman composer", as though her work could not be accepted as mainstream. Yet when she produced more delicate compositions, they were criticised for not measuring up to the standard of her male peers. She was the first female composer granted a damehood.

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