Elizabeth Maconchy
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Dame Elizabeth Violet Maconchy LeFanu was an English-Irish composer. She is considered to be one of the finest composers Great Britain and Ireland have produced.
Elizabeth Maconchy's plaque in Shottesbrook, Boreham
Charles Wood (composer)
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Charles Wood was an Irish composer and teacher; his students included Ralph Vaughan Williams at Cambridge and Herbert Howells at the Royal College of Music. He is primarily remembered and performed as
Elizabeth Maconchy
…reviewers and commentators. In 1923, at the age of sixteen, she moved to London to enrol at the Royal College of Music. At the RCM Maconchy studied under Charles Wood and Ralph Vaughan Williams. Her contemporaries at the college included Grace Williams, Dorothy Gow, and Ina Boyle. Early compositions such as the violin…
Charles Wood