Mary Lucas

Mary Anderson Lucas née Juler (b. 1882, d. 1952) was an English composer. She studied in Dresden and at the Royal Conservatory of Music with Herbert Howells and R.O. Morris. She married entrepreneur and inventor Ralph Lucas in 1903 and her son Colin became a noted architect.^[1] She gave up composition for a few years after she married, but returned to produce a number of successful compositions.^[2] Her Sonata for clarinet was written for Pauline Juler in 1938.^[3] Lucas' papers are housed at the British Library. ^[4]

Works

Selected works include:

Sonata for clarinet (1938)
The Wind (Text: James Stephens)
Sawdust, ballet (1941)
Variations on a Theme of Purcell for string orchestra
Trio for clarinet, viola and piano
Rhapsody for flute, cello and piano
The Book of Thel, masque for solo voices, chorus, chamber orchestra, and male and female narrators (1935)

References

^ Sharp, Dennis; Rendel, Sally (2008) (Digitized online by GoogleBooks). Connell, Ward and Lucas: Modern movement architects in England. http://books.google.com/books?id=2jklBJ2AHvEC&pg=PA16&lpg=PA16&dq=Mary+Anderson+Lucas+composer&source=bl&ots=fPf-b4UqMM&sig=6Gote-L6xAtWfMupkdLYx9gibIk&hl=en&ei=i0ElTb_YIMT68Ab42cGgAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBkQ6AEwADgK#v=onepage&q=Mary%20Anderson%20Lucas%20composer&f=false. Retrieved 5 January 2011.
^ "THE DISTAFF SIDE: SOME BRITISH WOMEN COMPOSERS". http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2002/oct02/distaff.htm#ixzz1AE0Cy97U. Retrieved 5 January 2011.
^ The Clarinet: Volume 11. International Clarinet Society, Idaho State University. Dept. of Music. 1983.
^ The British Library, Music Collections, Programmes and handbills relating to Mary Anderson Lucas

Persondata
Name	Lucas, Mary
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	1882
Place of birth
Date of death	1952
Place of death