Mirrie Hill

Mirrie Hill née Solomon (1 December 1892 – 1 May 1986) was an Australian composer.

Life

Mirrie Irrna Solomon was born in Sydney, and showed an early talent for music and pitch. She studied piano with an aunt, and at age 13 with Josef Kretschmann and later with Laurence Godfrey-Smith. She studied composition with Ernest Truman and composer Alfred Hill (1870–1960), and won a scholarship to study composition at the NSW State Conservatorium of Music.

After completing her studies, she took a position teaching harmony and aural culture at the Conservatorium. She married Alfred Hill in 1921. After his death in 1960, she established the annual Alfred Hill Award for a composition student at the Conservatorium. She died in Sydney.^{[1] [2]}

Works

Hill composed for orchestra, chamber ensemble, choral pieces, film scores, songs and solo instrumental works. She often incorporated Aboriginal themes and traditional Jewish melodies. Selected works include:

• Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra
• The Leafy Lanes of Kent (1950)
• Three miniature pieces for the piano
• Three Aboriginal Dances (Brolga, The Kunkarankara Women, Nalda of the Echo) (1950)
• Arnhemland symphony

Her works have been recorded and issued on CD, including:

• Dance of the Wild Men - Early 20th Century Australian Piano Music Artworks

References

1. ^ "Mirrie Hill (1892-1986)". http://www.musicaustralia.org/apps/MA?function=showDetail&currentMapsRecord=ANL:MA~1077541&itemSeq=8&total=17&&returnFunction=searchResults&scope=scope&simpleTerm=ernest&sessionId=reuseSearch38901D847F2E5466ABE43D593D7B29671228477747741. Retrieved 21 December 2010. 
2. ^ Sadie, Julie Anne; Samuel, Rhian (1994) (Digitized online by GoogleBooks). The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers. http://books.google.com/books?id=IvoQQU1QL_QC&pg=PA221&dq=Mirrie+Hill+(1892%E2%80%931986)&hl=en&ei=yrcQTb25D8KC8gbGoajfDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CE0Q6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=Mirrie%20Hill%20(1892%E2%80%931986)&f=false. Retrieved 4 October 2010. 

Persondata
Name	Hill, Mirrie
Alternative names
Short description	Composer
Date of birth	1 December 1892
Place of birth	Sydney, Australia
Date of death	1 May 1986
Place of death	Sydney, Australia

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