Ivy Frances Klein (née Salaman; 23 December 1895 – 25 March 1972) was a British

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Defi ...

, pianist, and singer. She is best known for her settings of Early Modern and

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poetry.

Biography

Ivy Frances Salaman was born in 1895 to

British Jewish British Jews (often referred to collectively as British Jewry or Anglo-Jewry) are British citizens who identify as Jewish. The number of people who identified as Jews in the United Kingdom rose by just under 4% between 2001 and 2021. History ...

parents Edmund Vannutelli Salaman and Edith Bessie Salaman, who were first cousins. Her father worked in the soap manufacturing industry, and by 1916 served as Vice Chairman of

Hazlehurst & Sons Hazlehurst & Sons was a company making soap and alkali in Runcorn, Cheshire, England in the 19th century and in the early years of the 20th century. The family was also largely responsible for the growth of Methodism in the town during the 19th c ...

. Her maternal grandfather was composer and pianist

Charles Kensington Salaman Charles Kensington Salaman (3 March 1814 – 23 June 1901) was a British Jewish composer, pianist, and writer. He was the composer of more than one hundred settings of Hebrew texts for the West London Synagogue, as well as numerous songs in ...

. Salaman studied

harmony In music, harmony is the process by which individual sounds are joined together or composed into whole units or compositions. Often, the term harmony refers to simultaneously occurring frequencies, pitches ( tones, notes), or chords. However ...

and composition in Liverpool under Arthur Wormald Pollitt from 1912 to 1915, and published her first songs in 1921. In 1923, she began studying composition with Benjamin Dale at the

Royal Academy of Music The Royal Academy of Music (RAM) in London, England, is the oldest conservatoire in the UK, founded in 1822 by John Fane and Nicolas-Charles Bochsa. It received its royal charter in 1830 from King George IV with the support of the first Duke of ...

, and receiving private vocal lessons from Anne Thursfield. Her musical setting of Lord Byron's '' She Walks in Beauty'' was presented to the Queen and played during the Coronation month of 1953.

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