Betty Humby Beecham

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Betty Humby Beecham (* 1908 in London ; † September 2, 1958 in Buenos Aires ) was an English pianist.

Humby worked for the Ibbs and Tillett music agency in the 1920s . As the organizer of a series of concerts in London's Cambridge Theater , she met Sir Thomas Beecham in 1937 . In April 1939 she performed as a pianist at the London Music Festival . In 1940 she gave concerts for the evacuees of the German bombing of London in churches in southern and western England.

In 1941 Humby went to the USA, where she made her pianist debut in February and met Beechum again, who made a radio recording of Frederick Delius' piano concerto with her in June of that year . This was the beginning of a collaboration that lasted until Humby's death.

In February 1943, Beecham and Humby married, who performed piano concertos and music under Beechum's direction during the war years. a. by Mozart , the G minor Concerto by Camille Saint-Saëns and the Concerto by Delius. In 1944 Beecham composed a concert for her based on pieces by Georg Friedrich Handel , which she recorded in 1945 with the London Philharmonic Orchestra .

In October of that year the Delius concert was recorded with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and in December 1946 another with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra , which was released on record.

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SURNAME Beecham, Betty Humby
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English pianist
DATE OF BIRTH 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH 2nd September 1958
Place of death Buenos Aires