{"product_id":"9780571366101-quartet-how-four-women-changed-the-musical-world-magnificent-kate-mosse","title":"Broad Leah - Quartet How Four Women Changed The Musical World - Magnificent (Kate Mosse) - Hardcover","description":"Binding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: * Winner OF THE Royal Philharmonic Society Storytelling Award** Shortlisted FOR THE Slightly Foxed BEST First Biography Prize 2023* The lives loves adventures and trailblazing musical careers of four extraordinary women from a stunning debut biographer. Fabulous. Sunday Times A rare gift. Financial Times Passionate Vivid Timely. Telegraph Readable and inspiring. Guardian Compelling Ambitious Poignant. Spectator Magnificent. Kate Mosse Riveting. Antonia Fraser A breath of fresh air. Kate Molleson Fascinating. Alexandra Harris Wonderful. Claire Tomalin Splendid. Miranda Seymour Remarkable. Fiona Maddocks Pioneering. Andrew Motion Brilliant Helen Pankhurst Ethel Smyth (b.1858): Famed for her operas this trailblazing queer Victorian composer was a larger - than - life socialite intrepid traveller and committed Suffragette. Rebecca Clarke (b.1886): This talented violist and Pre - Raphaelite beauty was one of the first women ever hired by a professional orchestra later celebrated for her modernist experimentation. Dorothy Howell (b.1898): A prodigy who shot to fame at the 1919 Proms her reputation as the English Strauss never dented her modesty; on retirement she tended Elgar's grave alone. Doreen Carwithen (b.1922): One of Britain's first woman film composers who scored Elizabeth II's coronation film her success hid a 20 - year affair with her married composition tutor. In their time these women were celebrities. They composed some of the century's most popular music and pioneered creative careers; but today they are ghostly presences surviving only as muses and footnotes to male contemporaries like Elgar Vaughan Williams and Britten - until now. Leah Broad's magnificent group biography resurrects these forgotten voices recounting lives of rebellion heartbreak and ambition and celebrating their musical masterpieces. Lighting up a panoramic sweep of British history over two World Wars Quartet revolutionises the canon forever.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: Quartet How Four Women Changed The Musical World - Magnificent (Kate Mosse)\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Broad Leah\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Faber \u0026amp; Faber\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9780571366101\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 480 Pages\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 9\/5\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: Feminism \u0026amp; Feminist Theory","brand":"Broad Leah","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49596445524273,"sku":"IN-G-9780571366101","price":23.43,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0644\/6759\/9594\/files\/9780571366101_c53d629b-9d18-48ed-acbc-e533a234b20e.jpg?v=1731018184","url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9780571366101-quartet-how-four-women-changed-the-musical-world-magnificent-kate-mosse","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}