Isobel Dunlop

Isobel Dunlop , also known as Violet Skelton , because she was a direct descendant of the British poet John Skelton , (born March 14, 1901 in Edinburgh , † May 12, 1975 in Haddington ) was a British violinist and composer.

life and work

Dunlop trained at Rothesay House in Edinburgh and at the University of Edinburgh . She studied violin with Camillo Ritter , who was considered Scotland's most important violin teacher. She studied singing with Michael Poutiatine and composition with Donald Tovey at the University of Edinburgh. She also studied with the composer Hans Gál , who fled the National Socialists from Vienna to Scotland.

In the 1930s, Dunlop taught at schools in Westonbirt and Downham . As a freelance composer, she created operas and string quartets. She played the violin in public and performed as a singer with the Saltire Singers , a well-known vocal quartet. In 1949 she founded the Saltire Music Group together with the conductor Hans Oppenheim, who had emigrated from Germany . This musical group performed ancient Scottish music as well as works by contemporary Scottish composers.

Her four settings of William Soutar texts and the work Mirror for Monarchy - Portraits of James V and his daughter Mary Queen of Scots , which she had written with Kenneth Elliott , an expert on old Scottish music, were presented at the 1949 and 1987 International Music Festival performed by Edinburgh from 1949 to 1987.

swell

• Minerva scientifica: Isobel Dunlop - composer and violinist. Retrieved September 18, 2019 . 
• British Music Collection: Isobel Dunlop. Retrieved September 19, 2019 . 
• Isobel Dunlop In: Elizabeth L. Ewan, Sue Innes, Sian Reynolds, Rose Pipes: Biographical Dictionary of ScottishWomen . Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 2007, ISBN 978-0-7486-2660-1 , pp. 108-109 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Isobel Dunlop in the WorldCat bibliographic database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} Minerva scientifica: Isobel Dunlop.