Sophia Dussek
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Sophia Dussek née Corri, later Moralt (b. Edinburgh, May 1, 1775; d. London, probably 1831 - the date of 1847 usually given is actually that of her second husband) was a Scottish singer, pianist, harpist, and composer of Italian descent.
In 1792, she married the composer Jan Ladislav Dussek. Modern-day musicologists believe that some of the works that were published under her husband's name and historically credited to him, including the famous sonatas (1797) and sonatinas (1799) for solo harp, were actually her creation. None of her works, published during her lifetime appeared as by J L, but Pleyel only used the name Dussek on the Paris editions, as J L was known there, but Sophia was not. It was not until 1953 that the sonata in C minor from Opus 2 book 2 appeared inder the name of JL, a misattribution by Nicanor Zabeleta. Following Jan's death in 1812, Sophia married the violist John Alvis Moralt. The couple lived in Paddington, where she founded a music school.
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- Shaljean, Bonnie. "Dussek: (5) Sophia Dussek", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. S. Sadie and J. Tyrrell (London: Macmillan, 2001), vii, 765-766.
