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She was born in London, and studied at the Royal Academy of Music from 1832 to 1837, Domenico Crivelli being her principal singing-master.
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She was born in London, and studied at the Royal Academy of Music from 1832 to 1837, Domenico Crivelli being her principal singing-master.
Royal Academy of Music.
In 1837 she was elected to a King"s scholarship, and first appeared at a Royal Philharmonic Society concert in 1841. In October 1845 she sang at the Gewandhaus, Leipzig, through the influence of Mendelssohn, who had been delighted by her singing in his oratorio Saint Paul. The contralto music in his Elijah was written for her voice, but she did not appear in that work until the performance at Exeter Hall on 16 April 1847.
She was a principal soloist in the first English performance of Bach"s Street Matthew Passion, directed by William Sterndale Bennett at the Hanover Square Rooms London on 6 April 1854.
She made various successful attempts as a composer, and the cantatas The Legend of Street Dorothea (1876), The Story of the Faithful Soul (1879), and Florimel (1885), enjoyed considerable success. Her last public appearance was at her husband"s farewell concert in June 1883, and she died in 1885.
A scholarship in her memory was founded at the Royal Academy of Music. Her voice was of moderate power and of fine quality, but it was her dignified and artistic style that gave her the high place she held for so many years both in oratorio and ballads.
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