Mary Lucas

Mary Lucas

Mary Anderson Lucas née Juler (b. 1882, d. 1952) was an English composer. She studied in Dresden and at the Royal Conservatory of Music with Herbert Howells and R.O. Morris. She married entrepreneur and inventor Ralph Lucas in 1903 and her son Colin became a noted architect.[1] She gave up composition for a few years after she married, but returned to produce a number of successful compositions.[2] Her Sonata for clarinet was written for Pauline Juler in 1938.[3] Lucas' papers are housed at the British Library. [4]

Works

Selected works include:

  • Sonata for clarinet (1938)
  • The Wind (Text: James Stephens)
  • Sawdust, ballet (1941)
  • Variations on a Theme of Purcell for string orchestra
  • Trio for clarinet, viola and piano
  • Rhapsody for flute, cello and piano
  • The Book of Thel, masque for solo voices, chorus, chamber orchestra, and male and female narrators (1935)

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