Oliveria Prescott
Oliveria Louisa Prescott (3 September 1842 – 9 September 1919) was an English writer and composer.[1]
Biography[]
Oliveria Prescott was born in London, the daughter of Frederick Joseph Prescott and Elizabeth Oliveria Russell.[2] She studied with Lindsay Sloper and then at the Royal Academy of Music under George Alexander Macfarren. She became Macfarren's amenuensis.[3]
She lectured in harmony and composition for Newnham College, Cambridge, and also taught harmony at the High School for Girls in Baker Street, London.[3] She died in London.
Works[]
Prescott composed several overtures, a piano concerto, shorter orchestral pieces, vocal and choral works and two symphonies.[4]
Selected works include:[1]
Stage[]
- Carrigraphuga, The Castle of the Fairies, musical comedy in three acts (1914), words by S. Phillips
Keyboard[]
- Concert Finale, pianoforte duet (1878)
Choral[]
- "A Border Ballad", four-part song (1844), words by Francis William Bourdillon
- Lord Ullin's Daughter, choral ballad (1869), after Lord Ullin's Daughter by Thomas Campbell
- "Song of Waterspirits" four-part song (1874), words by E. Evans
- The Righteous Life for Evermore, anthem for four voices (1876)
- "The Ballad of Young John and his True Sweetheart", part song (1878)
- "The Douglas Raid", four-part song (1883), words by J. Stewart
- "The Huntsman", four-part song (1883), words by J. Stewart
- "Equestrian Courtship", part song (1885), words by T. Hood
- "Say Not, the Struggle Nought Availeth", part song (1885), words by A. H. Clough
Song[]
- "There Is for Every Day a Bliss" (1873), words by J. W. H.
- "Ask Me No More", with violincello obbligato (1874), after The Princess by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- "Cheero!", marching song for whistlers and singing (1915), words by S. Phillips
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Cohen, Aaron I. International Encyclopedia of Women Composers.
- ^ (2018). Golding, Rosemary (ed.). The Music Profession in Britain, 1780-1920. London and New York: Routledge. pp. 149–169.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Brown, James Duff; Stratton, Stephen Samuel (1897). British musical biography: a dictionary of musical artists, authors and composers, born in Britain and its colonies. Birmingham: Chadfield. p. 327. Retrieved 30 November 2010.
Oliveria Louisa Prescott.
- ^ Elson, Arthur (1903). Woman's work in music: Being an account of her influence on the Art, in Ancient as well as Modern Times. Boston: The Page Company. p. 54.
Sophie Fuller, "Women musicians and professionalism in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries." In The Music Profession in Britain, 1780–1920, ed. Rosemary Golding (London and New York: Routledge, 2018), 149–69.
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