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First name: Dora E.
Last name: Bright (later: Knatchbull)
Dates: 1863-1951
Category: Quartet
Nationality: British
Opus name: Quartet in D Majar (1893)
Publisher: unpublished
Peculiarities: See: http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2002/Oct02/distaff.htm
Information: Bright was born in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. While at the Royal Academy of Music during 1881–89, her teachers included Walter Macfarren and Ebenezer Prout. She was the first woman to receive the Charles Lucas prize for musical composition, for her Air and Variations for String Quartet in 1888. In 1892 she married Wyndham Knatchbull (1829–1900), a captain of the 3rd Dragoon Guards and a great-grandson of Edward Knatchbull, 7th Baronet of Mersham Hatch. Thereafter she lived at Babington, Somerset. From around this time she started to compose works for dramatic performances. She was also the composer for ballets created with Adeline Genée, in a collaboration which also involved the designer C. Wilhelm. These ballets included The Dryad, La Camargo and La danse. As well as dancing these in London, Genée performed them during her successful tours of America, Australia and New Zealand. She composed also a pianoquartet. The whereabouts of this piece are unknown. She died at Babington in 1951.Many of her works have not survived.