Oliveria Louisa Prescott (3 September 1842 – 9 September 1919) was an English writer and composer. [1]
Oliveria Prescott was born in London, the daughter of Frederick Joseph Prescott and Elizabeth Oliveria Russell. [2] She studied with Lindsay Sloper and then at the Royal Academy of Music under George Alexander Macfarren. She became Macfarren's amenuensis. [3]
She lectured in harmony and composition for Newnham College, Cambridge, and also taught harmony at the High School for Girls in Baker Street, London. [3] She died in London.
Prescott composed several overtures, a piano concerto, shorter orchestral pieces, vocal and choral works and two symphonies. [4]
In 1876 Prescott's first symphony in B-flat “Alkestis” won third prize in a competition for new British symphonies that was held at the Alexandra Palace in north London. [5] In that competition Charles Villiers Stanford's first symphony in B-flat took second place, [6] while Francis William Davenport's symphony in D-minor was placed first. [7] A total of 38 symphonies had been submitted to the competition. [8]
Selected works include: [1]
Oliveria Louisa Prescott.
Sophie Fuller, "Women musicians and professionalism in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries." In The Music Profession in Britain, 1780–1920, ed. Rosemary Golding (London and New York: Routledge, 2018), 149–69.
Oliveria Louisa Prescott (3 September 1842 – 9 September 1919) was an English writer and composer. [1]
Oliveria Prescott was born in London, the daughter of Frederick Joseph Prescott and Elizabeth Oliveria Russell. [2] She studied with Lindsay Sloper and then at the Royal Academy of Music under George Alexander Macfarren. She became Macfarren's amenuensis. [3]
She lectured in harmony and composition for Newnham College, Cambridge, and also taught harmony at the High School for Girls in Baker Street, London. [3] She died in London.
Prescott composed several overtures, a piano concerto, shorter orchestral pieces, vocal and choral works and two symphonies. [4]
In 1876 Prescott's first symphony in B-flat “Alkestis” won third prize in a competition for new British symphonies that was held at the Alexandra Palace in north London. [5] In that competition Charles Villiers Stanford's first symphony in B-flat took second place, [6] while Francis William Davenport's symphony in D-minor was placed first. [7] A total of 38 symphonies had been submitted to the competition. [8]
Selected works include: [1]
Oliveria Louisa Prescott.
Sophie Fuller, "Women musicians and professionalism in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries." In The Music Profession in Britain, 1780–1920, ed. Rosemary Golding (London and New York: Routledge, 2018), 149–69.