Marie Foxon

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Marie Foxon
 
Portrait of Marie Foxon, musician and teacher
Marie Foxon
Born(1861-09-26)26 September 1861
Died9 May 1943(1943-05-09) (aged 81)
Sheffield, England
NationalityBritish
Occupation(s)Musician and teacher
Known forMorale 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

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Marie 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

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Text[2] A series of "Five O'Clock Concerts" held in Albert Hall

Inter-War Years

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An appreciation. The decline in demand for music teaching. Last of "Five O'Clock Concerts". Social change move from music

Second World War

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Death

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Obituary

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"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

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  1. ^ Mackerness, E.D. (1974). Somewhere Further North: A History of Music in Sheffield. Sheffield, England: The University of Sheffield. pp. 103–110.
  2. ^ Marie Foxon: an appreciation, by Gertrude M Ward, Sheffield: J. W. Northend Ltd., 1944
  3. ^ "Marie Foxon." The Musical Times 84, no. 1204 (1943): 192. http://www.jstor.org/stable/920916.