Amy Elsie Horrocks
Amy Elsie Horrocks (February 23, 1867 – ca. 1920)[1][2] was an English music educator, composer and pianist. She was born to English parents in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, and in 1882 studied piano and composition at the Royal Academy of Music with Adolf Schlösser and Francis William Davenport. She won the Potter Exhibition prize in 1888 and the Bennett Prize in 1889. After completing her studies she performed as a pianist and taught music in London.[3][4]
Works
Horrocks composed music for orchestra, chamber ensemble, choral and solo voice. Selected works include (dates are dates of publication unless better dates are available):
- The bird and the rose for bass voice and orchestra, 1917
- Undine, Op. 16 for orchestra, 1897[5]
- Twilight, a rêverie, for cello & piano
- Irish Melody, for cello & piano, Op. 17/1
- Country Dance, for cello & piano, Op. 17/2
- Piano Trio in B♭, 1897
- Sonata for cello and pianoforte, 1889
Her works have been recorded and issued on CD, including:
- Catherine Wilmers, Simon Marlow - A Cello Century Of British Women Composers Audio CD (August 22, 2000) Quicksilva Records, ASIN: B00004U5FS
References
- ↑ "VIAF". Retrieved June 23, 2012.
- ↑ "Modern Reprint of Obituary from The Etude". April 1920. Retrieved June 23, 2012. It is left possible by the obituary that she did not die extremely recently, so consensus seems to be that she died between 1915 and early 1920.
- ↑ Brown, James Duff; Stratton, Stephen Samuel (1897). British musical biography: a dictionary of musical artists, authors, and composers born in Britain and its colonies (Digitized online by GoogleBooks).
- ↑ Sadie, Julie Anne; Samuel, Rhian (1994). The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers (Digitized online by GoogleBooks). Retrieved October 4, 2010.
- ↑ Performed at The Proms, 1897.