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English poet and writer on music
The English patron of the arts and music writer, Rosa Newmarch
Rosa Harriet Newmarch
(18 December 1857 – 9 April 1940) was an English poet and writer on music.
Biography
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Rosa Harriet Jeaffreson
was born in
Leamington
in 1857, the maternal granddaughter of 19th-century dramatist
James Kenney
. She settled in London in 1880, when she began contributing articles to various
literary journals
. In 1883, she married Henry Charles Newmarch, thereafter using her married name in her professional work.
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Beginning in 1897 she did a great deal of research on Russian music, making many visits to Russia and working at the Imperial Public Library of
Saint Petersburg
under the supervision of
Vladimir Stassov
. She became one of the first English critics to champion Russian music. After 1915 she performed a similar service for
Slovak
music.
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citation needed
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From 1907 she edited the Living Masters of Music book series for
John Lane
.
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From 1908 until 1920 she wrote program notes for the
New Queen's Hall Orchestra
, and for
Prom concerts
. From 1919 she was assisted in respect of new works to the repertoire by
Eric Blom
, then in the early stages of his writing career. Newmarch's existing notes for established works continued to appear in the programs. Newmarch and Blom continued to write in tandem until 1927, when the BBC took over the concerts.
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Newmarch died in
Worthing
in 1940, aged 82. She was the great-grandmother of comedian
Sara Pascoe
.
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Legacy
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On 26 October 2010, Newmarch was the subject of the 30-minute BBC Radio programme "Rosa and Leo?", narrated by Peter Avis. This described her role popularising the music of
Leo? Jana?ek
in Britain, and organising a visit to Britain by the composer.
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Books
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- Tchaikovsky
(1900)
- Horae Amoris
(1903) (poetry)
- Henry J. Wood
(1904)
- Songs to a Singer
(1906) (poetry)
- The Life and Letters of Tchaikovsky
(1908)
- Cesar Franck
(by
Vincent d'Indy
, as translator) (1910)
- The Russian Opera
(1914)
- The Russian Arts
(1917)
- Jean Sibelius
(1939)
- The Music of
Czechoslovakia
(1942)
- The Concert-Goer's Library
(six volumes, 1928?48). These are collections of her programme notes, arranged by musical form.
References
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- ^
Publisher's advertisement in: Rosa Newmarch,
The Life & Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky
, London: John Lane/The Bodley Head and New York: John Lane Company, 1906. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
- ^
Frank Howes, "Blom, Eric (Walter)" in
Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians
, 5th edition, Supplementary Volume, 1961
- ^
H. C. Colles, "Newmarch, Rosa",
Grove's Dictionary
, 5th edition, Eric Blom, ed. 1954
Further reading
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- David Ewen,
Encyclopedia of Concert Music
. New York; Hill and Wang, 1959.
- Bullock, Philip Ross
(2009).
Rosa Newmarch and Russian Music in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century England
. Farnham, U.K.: Ashgate.
ISBN
9780754666622
.
OCLC
939160839
.
External links
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Media related to
Rosa Newmarch
at Wikimedia Commons
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