British composer, conductor and educator (1889 - 1978)
Ellen Florence Williams Whitlock (10 November 1889 – 13 October 1978) was a British composer, conductor and educator who was known professionally as E. Florence Whitlock.
Biography
Whitlock was born in
Redruth,
Cornwall,
England.[1] She studied violin with H. V. Pearce and
Hans Wessely, piano with Frederick Moore, composition with
Alan Bush, and performed with the Camborne and Redruth Oratorio Orchestra.[2] Whitlock attended the
Royal Academy of Music, as well as a Music Teachers' Association training course. From 1911 to 1912, she taught in
Bury St. Edmunds and later in
Taunton and
Ashford, Kent, where she also conducted the local orchestra.
Whitlock moved to
New Zealand in 1925 and married in 1926. She taught violin, cello, and chamber music at
Iona College from 1928 to 1935.[3] She conducted the Hastings Orchestral Society and performed in
Hastings and
Napier. She taught privately from 1937 to 1950, then returned to Kent where she taught privately until 1960.[4] Whitlock was a member of the
Composers' Guild of Great Britain.[5]
Theme and Variations on a Folk Tune, opus 2 (1955)
Vocal
Aye Me
Chorus with String Chamber Orchestra (organ ad lib; 1970)[10]
Daphne and the Shepherdess
Ode to St. Cecilia, opus 5 (text by
John Dryden; 1958)
Spring Prayer, opus 16 (2 sopranos and piano; text by
Ralph Waldo Emerson; 1968)
References
^Hixon, Donald L. (1993). Women in music : an encyclopedic biobibliography. Hennessee, Don A. (2nd ed.). Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press.
ISBN0-8108-2769-7.
OCLC28889156.
^Cohen, Aaron I. (1987). International encyclopedia of women composers (Second edition, revised and enlarged ed.). New York.
ISBN0-9617485-2-4.
OCLC16714846.{{
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^"Florence Whitlock". British Music Collection. 4 April 2009. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
^British Music Information Centre. (1969). Chamber music by living British composers. London: British Music Information Centre.
ISBN0-901765-00-7.
OCLC110956.