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This second volume features further world premiere recordings including pieces from her early maturity such as The Check Book, a compellingcollection of twelve miniatures for children; Piano e Forte that recalls Lutyens’s lifelong enthusiasm for the music of Debussy and explores the possibilities of the instrument in a way she had never attempted before; and Maybe–Encore Op. 159, which was Lutyens’s final work for piano composed in 1982.
Doctor, Jennifer. “Intersecting Circles: the Early Careers of Elizabeth Maconchy, Elisabeth Lutyens and Grace Williams.” Women & Music 2 (1998): 90–109. Doctor, Jennifer, and Sophie Fuller, eds. Music, Life, and Changing Times : Selected Correspondence Between British Composers Elizabeth Maconchy and Grace Williams, 1927–77. Vols. 1 and 2.
In the final volume of his landmark survey of Elisabeth Lutyens' piano works, Martin Jones presents further world premieres by this undeservedly neglected composer. With works from across Lutyens’ career, the earliest works to be included on this album are the Overture, Berceuse, Barcarolle and Dance Souvenance.
Available from Cambridge University Press. The composer Elisabeth Lutyens and her second husband, the conductor and music programmer Edward Clark, were innovators in composition, conducting, programming, teaching, and music administration in Britain between 1918 and 1983.
Elisabeth Lutyens (1906–1983) - Issue 145. Elisabeth lutyens has left a vacuum which will not be easily filled. Her single minded and highly idealistic devotion to her art gives us all a standard to which to aspire, and although her ideals sometimes made her embittered with the musical world, her accurate observation and criticism of changing values made her a latter-day prophet who did not always cry wolf.
Also known as: Mrs. Edward Clarke, Agnes Elisabeth Lutyens. Determined to be a composer from the age of 9, Elisabeth Lutyens went to Paris in 1922 to study at the Ècole Normale de Musique in Paris. On her return to London, she studied composition and the viola at the Royal College of Music from 1926-30.
A profile of the composer Elisabeth Lutyens (1906-83), along with a list of their works available to browse and buy.
