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Clara Kathleen Rogers. Chamber Music. Edited by Judith Radell and Dieter Wulfhorst. (Recent Researches in American Music, 42.) Middleton, WI: A-R Editions, Inc., c2001. [Acknowledgments, p. vi; introd., p. vii-xiii; 3 plates; score, 125 p.; crit. report, p. 127-33. ISBN 0-89579-484-5. $70.] Contains: String Quartet in D minor, op. 5; Sonata in G Major for Violoncello and Piano, op. 23; Reverie for Violoncello and Piano.
The formidably gifted and versatile Clara Kathleen Rogers (nee Barnett, 1844-1931) was born into a musical English family. Along with two siblings, she entered the Leipzig Konservatorium in 1857 and remained for four years. There she studied piano as well as harmony, part writing, violin, cello, and voice. Although composition classes were not yet open to women at the conservatory, she nevertheless produced the first movement of her string quartet while a student there; none other than her young fellow classmate Arthur Sullivan saw to it that the work was performed (in 1859 at one of the Barnett family's Sunday evening musicales), even copying out the parts himself. Graduating...
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