Dame Ethel Smyth

Dame Ethel Mary Smyth (; 22 April 1858 – 8 May 1944) was an English composer and a member of the women's suffrage movement. Her compositions include songs, works for piano, chamber music, orchestral works, choral works and operas.

Smyth tended to be marginalised as a "woman composer" as though her work could not be accepted as mainstream. Yet when she produced more delicate compositions, they wer… More