Dora Bright - Her Life and Works in the Public Eye - Anthony Bilton
Introduction
Dora Bright - Her Life and Works in the Public Eye - Anthony Bilton
Anthony Bilton [+]
Independent Scholar
Anthony Bilton built a successful career as an IT Risk and Audit Consultant working with some of the largest management consultancies and banks in the UK. However, throughout his career he maintained his keen interest in music (sparked by his teacher, the organist at Beverley Minster), both playing and researching. Two particular strands to his musical life – his research into Romantic piano concertos and his exploration of Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel’s music – led Anthony Bilton to Dora Bright’s piano concerto and thence to this biography, which will offer the first full-length study of Bright’s inspirational life and work.
Description
The chapter considers Dora Bright’s role in the renaissance of English music in the late nineteenth century and provides an initial consideration of how she approached the ambiguous and changing views of women in Victorian/Edwardian England.