Clara Angela Macirone - Composer

Clara Angela Macirone (London, 20 January 1821 – London, 1914) was an English pianist, composer and teacher of Italian descent. Her mother, a pianist, had studied with Charles Neate, and her father was an amateur tenor. She entered the Royal Academy of Music in 1839, where she studied with Cipriani Potter, W. H. Holmes and Charles Lucas, and she later taught at the Academy herself. She gave her first concert at the Hanover Square Rooms in June 1846, where the baritone Johann Pischek sang her sacred song Benedictus, a work later praised by Mendelssohn. She continued to perform until 1864 and then devoted herself to teaching and composition. Her Te Deum and Jubilate, sung at Hanover Chapel, was claimed to be the first setting of the service by a woman used in the Church of England. She taught at Aske's School for Girls in Hatcham (1872–1878) and at the Church of England High School for Girls in Baker Street, and wrote on music for The Girl's Own Paper and The Argosy, becoming a pioneer of music education for women. Her works include a Suite in E minor for violin and piano, the Rondino in G for piano, the anthem By the Waters of Babylon, the choral piece Footsteps of Angels, and many songs on texts by Longfellow, Byron, Tennyson, Edwin Arnold and Thomas Hood, among them The Balaclava Charge. Source: Rondo DB


Usual Name	Clara Angela Macirone
Alternative Spellings	C. A. MacIrone, Clara Angela Macironi
On Wikipedia	Clara_Angela_Macirone
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