Hilda Wilson

Hilda Wilson (April 7, 1860 – December 1, 1918)[1] was a British contralto who also used the name Matilda Ellen Wilson and composed under the name Douglas Hope.[2]

She was born into a musical family.[3] Her father James Wilson was the bandmaster of the Monmouth Volunteer Corps. Her sister Agnes was also a contralto and her brother James taught at the West London Conservatoire of Music. In 1890, Wilson gave a series of vocal recitals assisted by Agnes, James, and another unidentified brother. Edward Elgar composed some songs for Wilson in October 1890, one of which was called "Garlands."[4]

Wilson studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London,[5] where she was a Westmorland Scholar, won the Parepa-Rosa scholarship[6] and bronze, silver, and gold medals.[7] She married Ashley Hart. Wilson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music, a member of the Royal Society of Musicians, and an associate of the London Philharmonic Society.[8]

Wilson's performances included:

  • 1874 - solo vocalist for the Gloucester Choral Society
  • 1880 – Gloucester Festival
  • 1883 – Leeds Festival
  • 1885 – Messiah (Handel)
  • 1887 – Norwich Festival
  • 1889 – Requiem (Dvorak; conducted by the composer)[9]
  • 1890 - vocal recitals at Steinway Hall (probably in London)
  • 1891 – Birmingham Festival
  • Nov 10, 1900 BBC Proms (the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts)

Her compositions included:

Musical Theatre

Vocal
  • From Overseas[10]
  • My Roses
  • When Birds Do Sing
  • Wheresoe'er you are[11]
gollark: I think it's repulsion *from* sunlight?
gollark: preys -> prey (line 54, 60, probably more)
gollark: How do you view encyclopaedia entries for a dragon you have again?
gollark: As the owner's name isn't listed, we shall never know...
gollark: I wonder why it was abandoned.

References
  1. Greene, Frank (1985). Composers on Record: An Index to Biographical Information on 14,000 Composers Whose Music Has Been Recorded. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-1816-3.
  2. Frenger, Carolyn (2005). "Dictionary of Pseudonyms: 11,000 Assumed Names and Their Origins (4th edition)200554Adrian Room. Dictionary of Pseudonyms: 11,000 Assumed Names and Their Origins (4th edition). Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland 2004. v+522 pp., ISBN: 0 7864 1658 0 £50/$75". Reference Reviews. 19 (1): 53–54. doi:10.1108/09504120510573936. ISSN 0950-4125.
  3. Brown, James Duff; Stratton, Stephen Samuel (1897). British Musical Biography: A Dictionary of Musical Artists, Authors, and Composers Born in Britain and Its Colonies. S.S. Stratton.
  4. Reed, W. H. (2013-05-31). The Master Musicians - Elgar. Read Books Ltd. ISBN 978-1-4733-8828-4.
  5. Hixon, Donald L. (1993). Women in music : an encyclopedic biobibliography. Hennessee, Don A. (2nd ed.). Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-2769-7. OCLC 28889156.
  6. "Euphrosyne Parepa | Opera Scotland". www.operascotland.org. Retrieved 2020-08-01.
  7. Cohen, Aaron I. International encyclopedia of women composers (Second edition, revised and enlarged ed.). New York. ISBN 0-9617485-2-4. OCLC 16714846.
  8. International Who's who in Music and Musical Gazetteer. Current Literature Publishing Company. 1918.
  9. "en/requiem | antonin-dvorak.cz". www.antonin-dvorak.cz. Retrieved 2020-08-01.
  10. "hilda wilson". www.unsungcomposers.com. Retrieved 2020-08-01.
  11. "Hilda Wilson - National Portrait Gallery". www.npg.org.uk. Retrieved 2020-08-01.

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