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Ethel Smyth

1858 - 1944

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Dame Ethel Mary Smyth (; 22 April 1858 – 8 May 1944) was an English composer and a member of the women's suffrage movement. Her compositions include songs, works for piano, chamber music, orchestral works, choral works and operas. Smyth tended to be marginalised as a "woman composer", as though her work could not be accepted as mainstream. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ethel Smyth has received more than 457,971 page views. Her biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia. Ethel Smyth is the 505th most popular composer, the 1,428th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,451st in 2019) and the 14th most popular British Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Ethel Smyth ranks 505 out of 1,451. Before her are Agostino Steffani, John Adams, Guillaume Lekeu, Vasily Kalinnikov, Maddalena Casulana, and Aleksandra Pakhmutova. After her are Alexandre Desplat, Alexandre Tansman, Princess Cecilia of Sweden, Peter Cornelius, Joachim Raff, and Giuseppe Gazzaniga.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1858, Ethel Smyth ranks 54. Before her are Oldfield Thomas, Albrecht Penck, Countess Marie Larisch von Moennich, Mélanie Bonis, Caran d'Ache, and Roland Bonaparte. After her are Pandita Ramabai, John L. Sullivan, Joséphin Péladan, William Henry Pickering, Gustaf Kossinna, and Ye Wanyong. Among people deceased in 1944, Ethel Smyth ranks 103. Before her are Agustín Barrios, Artur Phleps, Kurt Gerron, Nikolai Polikarpov, Ulrich von Hassell, and Andrey Sheptytsky. After her are Petr Ginz, Emanuel Ringelblum, Józef Beck, Walter Heitz, André Abegglen, and Rudolf Schmundt.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Ethel Smyth ranks 1,428 out of 8,785. Before her are Julia Ormond (1965), Prince William, Duke of Cumberland (1721), Sophie Turner (1996), Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby (1799), Richard J. Roberts (1943), and Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington (1673). After her are Alan Baker (1939), Alison Steadman (1946), Rhys Ifans (1967), Evelyn De Morgan (1855), Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817), and Claire Forlani (1971).

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Among COMPOSERS In United Kingdom

Among composers born in United Kingdom, Ethel Smyth ranks 14. Before her are Eugen d'Albert (1864), Thomas Tallis (1502), Andrew Lloyd Webber (1948), John Dunstaple (1390), Michael Nyman (1944), and Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872). After her are Frederick Delius (1862), William Walton (1902), John Blow (1649), Neville Marriner (1924), Thomas Arne (1710), and Albert Ketèlbey (1875).

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