Unsung Composers

The Music => Composers & Music => Topic started by: giles.enders on Wednesday 04 June 2014, 11:49

Title: Amy Woodforde-Finden 1860-1919
Post by: giles.enders on Wednesday 04 June 2014, 11:49
Amy Woodford-Finden.
I see that Tocatta Classics have released a recording of her oriental songs.  My question is, did she compose any music other than songs.  I have not been able to trace anything so far.
Title: Re: Amy Woodforde-Finden 1860-1919
Post by: eschiss1 on Wednesday 04 June 2014, 12:52
Hrm. Was "Corona '1911'" a waltz for piano, as the editor/uploader to IMSLP claims, or a voice/piano song?...
Title: Re: Amy Woodforde-Finden 1860-1919
Post by: eschiss1 on Wednesday 04 June 2014, 12:54
(I should note that there does seem to be a manuscript opera, The Pagoda of Flowers (http://imslp.org/wiki/The_Pagoda_of_Flowers_%28Woodforde-Finden,_Amy%29), here.)
Title: Re: Amy Woodforde-Finden 1860-1919
Post by: Gareth Vaughan on Wednesday 04 June 2014, 15:16
This is very interesting, Eric. Like Giles, I had thought she had composed only songs.
Title: Re: Amy Woodforde-Finden 1860-1919
Post by: eschiss1 on Wednesday 04 June 2014, 16:14
Manuscript (copy thereof?) in the Netherlands Radio Archive, too (I think?) - wonder how it got there. Or where most of her manuscripts are?