Joan Chissell
English writer and lecturer on music, and music reviewer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Joan Olive Chissell was an English writer and lecturer on music, and music reviewer for The Times 1948–79. She made a special study of the life and works of Robert Schumann. Career Joan Chissell was born in Cromer, and was educated at the Manor School in Sheringham. She gained a scholarship at Royal College of Music in 1937, where she studied piano and composition with Kendall Taylor, theory under Herbert Howells and history and criticism under Frank Howes. Her pianistic career was cut short by an injury. Despite this, while at the RCM she gave the first UK performance of Maurice Ravel's Piano Concerto for the Left Hand.
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- Tragic muse : the life and works of Robert Schumann (1957) (3)
- Clara Schumann, a dedicated spirit: A study of her life and work (1983) (3)
- STYLE IN BLOCH'S CHAMBER MUSIC (1943) (1)
- Schumann in 1960: Miniaturist or Symphonic Master? (1960) (1)
- Mistakes Will Occur (1948) (0)
- Wife and Musician (1984) (0)
- The Three Choirs Festival (1948) (0)
- Today's challenges in primary health care. (1976) (0)
- Music Critics and Criticism Today (1960) (0)
- Some Reflections on Leeds (1966) (0)
- A Classical Trio (1985) (0)
- Editorial: High blood pressure month--different perspectives. (1978) (0)
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