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Eileen Alannah Joyce CMG (died 25 March 1991) was an Australian pianist whose career spanned more than 30 years. She lived in England in her adult years. Her recordings made her popular in the 1930s and 1940s, particularly during World War II. At her zenith she was compared in popular esteem with Gracie Fields and Vera Lynn. [1] .
Eileen Joyce (1908–91) was a gifted and glamorous pianist who played new music and old classics in the 1930s and 1940s. She was also a harpsichordist and appeared in several movies, but her career was hampered by a conservative musical establishment.
Eileen Joyce (1908-1991), concert pianist, was born on 1 January 1908 at Zeehan, Tasmania, fourth of seven children of Tasmanian-born Joseph Thomas Joyce, miner, and his Victorian-born wife Alice Gertrude, née May.
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The Australian pianist Eileen Joyce, who died in England on March 25, rose from poverty-stricken obscurity to become one of this century's most famous concert stars. She was one of the four children of Irish immigrants, Joseph and Alice Joyce, and she was born in a tent at Zeehan, Tasmania, in 1912 [1908].
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Nov 9, 2021 · Eileen Joyce (1908-1991) frequently said: “It was my destiny.” She was one of the great pianists in the middle of the 20th century, at her peak when Rubinstein, Schnabel and Horowitz were also ...
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Australian pianist Eileen Joyce stunned London’s musical world with her first recording for Parlophone in the 1930s. “Never before have we heard such clarity of detail and absence of piano ‘twang’,” marvelled Gramophone magazine. The Broadcaster described her as the Menuhin of the piano.
