biography
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Smyth, Dame Ethel Mary
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| female
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| lived:
| (1858–1944)
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| biography:
| Composer and suffragette, born in London, UK. She studied at Leipzig, and composed a Mass in D Minor, symphonies, choral works, and several operas, such as The Wreckers (1906) and The Boatswain's Mate (1916). As a crusader for women's suffrage she composed the battle-song of the Women's Social and Political Union (‘The March of the Women’, 1911). She was created a dame in 1922. |
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