Alice Verne-Bredt

Alice Verne-Bredt ( Alice Barbara Wurm ; born August 9, 1868 in Southampton , † April 12, 1958 in London ) was an English composer, pianist and music teacher.

Life

Verne-Bredt was one of ten children of the music educators Johann Evangelist Wurm and Sophie Niggli . Like her sisters, Mary , Adela and Mathilde , she received training as a musician from her parents. She had violin lessons from her mother and was aiming for a career as a singer, but lost her singing voice due to typhoid fever. She then took piano lessons in London with Marie Schumann , a daughter of Robert and Clara Schumann, and then accompanied her sisters on concert tours. In 1909 she and her sister Mathilde opened the Mathilde Verne School of Pianoforte Playing in Kensington, where she took over the lessons of the children (later Childrens College of Music ). Verne-Bredt emerged as a composer with piano pieces and chamber music works. In 1908 she received a prize from the Worshipful Company of Musicians for her phantasy for strings . Since 1903 she was married to the amateur musician William Bredt .

Works

• Fantasy for strings
• Piano Quintet
• Piano Quartet , 1908
• Imagination Trio , 1908
• Piano Trio No.2
• Piano Trio No.3
• Lullaby for violin and piano , 1911
• Cello Sonata
• Valse for piano, 1913
• Valse Miniature for two pianos , 1913
• Four easy inventions for young pianists , 1920
• An arrangement of Pavane: from King Henry VIII's Pavyn , 1924
• Adagio for strings , 1947
• Toy suite
• Mass

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• Meridian Records - Premiere Recordings of English Romantic Trios
• Alice Verne Bredt in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• Composers of Classical Music - Alice Verne Bredt
• British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content - Alice Verne-Bredt: A Brief Review in The Music Student