Sarah Fennings

Sarah Fennings (* 1873 in Essex; † after 1938) was an English violinist and music teacher.

As a child, Fennings played in a quartet with her siblings, who were amateur musicians. At the age of ten she came to the Kensington School of Music and was then a student of Gustav Holländer for a year and a half . At the Guildhall School of Music and Drama she continued her training with August Wilhelmj and studied (probably between 1903 and 1905) at the Prague Conservatory with Otakar Ševčík , whom she supported for ten years as an assistant in his annual summer courses. Around 1900 she became an associate of the Royal Philharmonic Society . From 1910 she was professor of violin at Trinity College of Music . Her students included Harry Blech , Alice Lee , Alfred Haxton , Dorothy Mealin , Blanche Laughton , Marion Smith and Gwen Bury .

Fennings was best known as a violinist in England. Her first appearance is recorded for 1896 in the Queen's Hall . The pianist Henry Bird was her partner several times . In addition to other concerts in London, Glasgow, Birmingham and Liverpool, she also toured with Allan James Foley and Emma Nevada . Her repertoire included concerts by Henri Vieuxtemps and Ludwig van Beethoven , sonatas by Georg Friedrich Händel , Niels Wilhelm Gade , César Franck , Johannes Brahms , and Antonín Dvořák as well as compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach , Franz Schubert , Henryk Wieniawski , Jenö Hubay and Claude Debussy . She also published several articles on questions of violin playing in professional journals.

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SURNAME	Fennings, Sarah
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British violinist and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	1873
PLACE OF BIRTH	Essex
DATE OF DEATH	after 1938