Eleanor Catherine Warren MBE or Eleanor Catherine Rutherford Warren (15 June 1919 – 25 August 2005) was a British cellist and

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Life

Warren was born in

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in 1919; her father was William Rutherford Warren. Her Jewish German mother, Elsa Julia, née Seligman, was a cellist. Warren was playing as a small child and she was enrolled in the

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. Warren was the youngest ever pupil at the age of five. (

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was to also study at the age of five in the 1950s). By the time she left the school as a teenager she had met many important musicians. Obituary. In 1936 she started the first phase of her career when

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assisted her in getting her first concert appearance as a cellist. In 1940, the impresario Harold Holt often included her as a supporting artist to the tenor

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, with whom she toured the country. Tauber wrote for her a Ballade for 'cello and piano which they often played together on the tour. By the time of the

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she was a member of the

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and they would tour factories to entertain the workers, play at the

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and in air-raid shelters. She married

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in 1943. After the war she continued to play and to teach. The quartet ended in the 1950s and she joined a trio until a back injury indicated a change of direction. She divorced her husband in 1953. She subsequently worked with the

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, the

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, the Zorian Quartet and the

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. She also took part in film sessions with

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and

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. She joined the

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in 1964 and in 1969 she organised a series of broadcasts from a music venue of her own devising. She had identified that the restored St John's Church in

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was an ideal venue for BBC radio concerts. One of its advantages was its distance from traffic noise including underground trains. Each Monday lunchtime the music concerts would be broadcast on

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until the church was rebuilt. Warren is credited with suggesting the formation of an important trio. She encouraged the collaboration between the pianist

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, the violinist

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and the American cellist

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to form the Pauk–Kirshbaum–Frankl Piano Trio.Tony Fell, 'Warren, Eleanor Catherine Rutherford (1919–2005)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Jan 2009; online edn, Jan 201
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/ref> Warren eventually left the BBC leaving as the head of BBC Radio music programmes. Obituary. She took a number of important posts. She was appointed MBE in 1991. The BBC later commissioned ''

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'' by

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to mark the 25th anniversary of Pauk–Kirshbaum–Frankl Piano Trio. It was played by them at the

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in 1997.

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Boosey.com, Retrieved 23 November 2015 Warren died in 2005. Obituary.

References

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