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Dora Estella Bright, married name Knatchbull, (16 August 1862 – 16 November 1951) was an English composer and pianist. She composed works for orchestra, keyboard and voice, and music for opera and ballet,〔 including ballets for performance by the dancer Adeline Genée.〔 ==Biography== Dora Bright was born in Stanton Broom, Sheffield, Yorkshire. Her parents were Augustus Bright, a merchant and a captain of the Hallamshire Volunteer Rifle Corps,〔 and Katherine Coveney Pitt,〔 an actress, playwright and manager of a theatre company. In 1873, aged nine, Dora performed with her father, an amateur violinist, in a benefit concert for his military unit. He died in 1880 and his business, inherited by his widow, failed in 1882.〔 While at the Royal Academy of Music during 1881–89,〔 her teachers included Walter Macfarren and Ebenezer Prout.〔 She was the first woman to receive the Charles Lucas Medal for musical composition, for her ''Air and Variations for String Quartet'' in 1888.〔 Her circle of close friends there included fellow students Edward German and his fiancée Ethel Boyce.〔 Boyce subsequently partnered her in concert performances of Bright's piano duet ''Variations on an Original Theme of Sir G. A. Macfarren'', named for George Alexander Macfarren, their teacher's brother.〔 In 1889, 1890 and 1892 she made concert tours of Germany, including Dresden, Cologne and Leipzig, with performances of her piano concerto in A minor.〔 In 1892 she married Wyndham Knatchbull (1829–1900), a captain of the 3rd Dragoon Guards and a great-grandson of Edward Knatchbull, 7th Baronet of Mersham Hatch.〔 Thereafter she lived at Babington House in Babington, Somerset,〔 and became a local leader of charitable amateur productions such as performances of Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas.〔 From around 1897, her own piano concert performances tailed off. She changed direction towards composing music for dramatic performances. An early success in this line came in 1903 when ''The Dancing Girl and the Idol'', an oriental fantasy with words by Edith Lyttelton, was given an amateur production at a prestigious charity event in Chatsworth House.〔 In 1904, the piece was performed at Chatsworth again, by royal request, as King Edward had missed the 1903 performance through illness.〔"The King and Queen at Chatsworth." ''The Times'', 7 January 1904〕 She was also the composer for ballets created with Adeline Genée,〔 in a collaboration which also involved the designer C. Wilhelm. These ballets included ''The Dryad'', ''La Camargo'' and ''La danse''. As well as dancing these in London, Genée performed them during her successful tours of America, Australia and New Zealand.〔 Bright's ''Suite bretonne'' was performed at the Proms in August 1917.〔 On 8 April 1937 she performed an orchestral piano concert for BBC Radio. On 28 April 1939 the BBC broadcast her playing from her home, Babington House.〔 Beginning at some time around 1940, Bright began to work for the magazine ''Musical Opinion and Music Trade Review'', based in Hatton Garden, London EC1. Her association with the magazine coincided with a re-directing of its editorial policy onto a sternly reactionary course, and a decline in readership.〔http://www.havergalbrian.org/thesignificance.htm〕 She died at Babington in 1951.〔 Many of her works have not survived.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dora Bright」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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