Dora Bright - Her Life and Works in the Public Eye - Anthony Bilton
Mrs. Knatchbull, 1892-1900
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
Dora Bright reaches the first high point in her career as a composer, as she becomes the first woman to be asked to compose and play her own work by the London Philharmonic Society. In the same year she married and became a part of the English landed gentry, although unlike many women, marriage did not prevent her from continuing her career as a performer and composer.