Marie Foxon
editMarie Foxon | |
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Marie Foxon | |
Born | |
Died | 9 May 1943 Sheffield, England | (aged 81)
Nationality | British |
Occupation(s) | Musician and teacher |
Known for | Morale boosting concerts for civilians in World War One |
Marie Foxon (1861- 1943) was a professional music teacher[1] who organised morale-boosting concerts for civilians during the First World War in her native Sheffield
Early Life
editMarie Foxon was born in Pitsmoor, Sheffield. Methodist upbringing and performed at Chapel. She trained at the Royal Academy of Arts and returned to Sheffield to spend her life teaching and organising concerts
First World War
editText[2] A series of "Five O'Clock Concerts" held in Albert Hall
Inter-War Years
editAn appreciation. The decline in demand for music teaching. Last of "Five O'Clock Concerts". Social change move from music
Second World War
editDeath
editObituary
edit"Her devotion to the art and her expansive and gracious personality made a deep impression on the lives of the immense number of pupils who came to her from the North of England and the Midlands" [3]
References
edit- ^ Mackerness, E.D. (1974). Somewhere Further North: A History of Music in Sheffield. Sheffield, England: The University of Sheffield. pp. 103–110.
- ^ Marie Foxon: an appreciation, by Gertrude M Ward, Sheffield: J. W. Northend Ltd., 1944
- ^ "Marie Foxon." The Musical Times 84, no. 1204 (1943): 192. http://www.jstor.org/stable/920916.