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Ethel Smyth

1858 - 1944

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Dame Ethel Mary Smyth (; 22 April 1858 – 8 May 1944) was an English composer and a member of the women's suffrage movement. Her compositions include songs, works for piano, chamber music, orchestral works, choral works and operas. Smyth tended to be marginalised as a "woman composer", as though her work could not be accepted as mainstream. Yet when she produced more delicate compositions, they were criticised for not measuring up to the standard of her male peers. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ethel Smyth is the 435th most popular composer (up from 505th in 2019), the 1,459th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,428th in 2019) and the 15th most popular British Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Ethel Smyth ranks 435 out of 1,451. Before her are Federico Mompou, Carl Friedrich Zelter, Albert Lortzing, Johann Kirnberger, Johann Schein, and Yo-Yo Ma. After her are Ferdinand Ries, William Walton, Leopold Koželuch, Alexandre Guilmant, Vladimir Cosma, and Agostino Steffani.

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Among people born in 1858, Ethel Smyth ranks 51. Before her are Countess Marie Larisch von Moennich, Fernand Khnopff, Mélanie Bonis, Remy de Gourmont, Gaetano Mosca, and Constance Lloyd. After her are Alois Riegl, Jan Toorop, Saitō Makoto, John Russell, Francis Preserved Leavenworth, and Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia. Among people deceased in 1944, Ethel Smyth ranks 98. Before her are Lepke Buchalter, Chaim Rumkowski, Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorff, Paul Masson, Arthur Blake, and Aliya Moldagulova. After her are Hannah Szenes, Tokutaro Ukon, Kurt Gerron, Paul Poiret, Robert E. Park, and James McKeen Cattell.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Ethel Smyth ranks 1,459 out of 8,785. Before her are Mick Jones (1944), Matt Smith (1982), David Hartley (1705), Constance Lloyd (1858), Frederick Keeping (1867), and Kim Wilde (1960). After her are Edmund Leighton (1852), Alison Steadman (1946), Kate Beckinsale (1973), William Walton (1902), Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle (1693), and Steven Berkoff (1937).

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Among COMPOSERS In United Kingdom

Among composers born in United Kingdom, Ethel Smyth ranks 15. Before her are Eugen d'Albert (1864), Thomas Tallis (1502), Keith Emerson (1944), Michael Nyman (1944), Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872), and John Dunstaple (1390). After her are William Walton (1902), John Blow (1649), Thomas Arne (1710), Neville Marriner (1924), Orlando Gibbons (1583), and David Rose (1910).

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